The most deadly poison of our time is indifference.
Interpretation
Indifference can cause harm by allowing important issues to be ignored.
Maximilian Kolbe's quote emphasizes the dangerous impact of indifference in society. It suggests that apathy and inaction in the face of injustice or suffering can be more lethal than overt hostility, as it enables problems to persist and flourish unchecked.
In practice
In a speech about social justice, one might quote Kolbe to emphasize the need for active engagement.
"My aim is to institute perpetual adoration," spoke St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe, Franciscan priest and founder of the Knights of the Immaculata. For he said that this is "the most important activity," and "if half of the Brothers would work, and the other half pray, this would not require too much."
My aim is to institute perpetual adoration," he said, for this is the "the most important activity.
As the blowback against those who stand up for what is right thickens, I feel it is necessary to push forward with a relentless determination.
There is no law for farm labor organizing, save the law of the jungle.
I don't like looking at myself. I have such bad body dysmorphia.
And if I know anything at all, it's that a wall is just a wall and nothing more at all. It can be broken down.
I understand that fear is my friend, but not always. Never turn your back on Fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed. My father taught me that, along with a few other things that have kept my life interesting.
And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!
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