Our Responsibility to Stand Up and Ask the Tough Questions
I thought the phrase, “with knowledge comes responsibility”, would make an interesting concept to write about.
Finding the source of this phrase has been a challenge. I didn’t find much in Google, then as per the Yahoo! Answers site and also then confirmed through the ChaCha.com question-answering service, I was surprised to get back the following:
It seems as this is a bit of common sense that has become commonplace speech. It was last popularized by Spiderman.
While I have never been much of a Superhero fan, maybe those characters portrayed a more positive sentiment that I realized. Similar to the theme of: “Truth, Justice and the American Way”, as Superman was known for, maybe we need a new Superhero for our current economic, financial, and political environment.
Clearly we are losing our way. For example:
How is it that a politician’s patriotism can be questioned because he doesn’t where a flag lapel pin? And, how can anyone even question that as being a potential political vulnerability?
I’ll leave you with the following quote to consider:
I am only one,
But still I am one.
I cannot do everything,
But still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
-Edward Everett Hale
