Yesterday, I watched the film Harriet, a re-imagined story of Harriet Tubman and her journey to freedom. I was in awe of the courage and selflessness that it requires to define freedom as more than just an individual achievement.
Harriet taught me that just one or a few is simply, not enough. Her unwavering faith and patience to pause to hear a voice much louder than her own is the quality of wisdom that I aspire to. She attracted a network of like-hearted leaders that were willing to sacrifice their lives, ego, status etc. for the liberation of a community that was disqualified and denigrated, but demanded their dignity.
Our community is faced with challenges, obstacles and barriers that attempt to stretch them as far from freedom and liberation as possible. There are some of us endowed with the protection of privilege that excuse us from these journeys and some that can’t silence the shouting or the relentless drive to deliver more to freedom each day.
Ask yourself for the sake of freedom and liberation for our community, what keeps me going? How can we hold our organization as like-hearted leaders in the network?
Seek the North Star and lead others to it.
