“Perhaps one of these days we who are city dwellers will give up the myth of our powerlessness, turn around, and move in a new direction. We do not have to sit around immobilized, waiting for help to come. We can learn to care for our society, which in large part means learning to care for our cities. If our streets are to be redeemed we will have to commit our own human and financial resources to that goal. We will have to recover our gifts of faith and hope and endurance, evoke the gifts of other persons, and thus develop leaders and facilitators for the building of a global network of small, disciplined, self-critical groups whose reflection will issue in purposeful action.”
–Elizabeth O’Connor, Servant Leaders, Servant Structures, pg. 88.
