There's no such thing as "righteous anger." Anger destroys your clarity of vision. Angry people aren't elders or wise leaders, because what they give is anger, not insight or compassion.

Yes, it's healthy to identify the injustices of the world. It's healthy to say, "This is a situation that hurts people, and it's a situation that I want to see changed." But the motivation for change never comes from anger (which yields violence) but from compassion (which yields healing).

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