"The job of a good ally is not to save anybody but rather to help create the conditions under which people can assert and grow their own power."
"Let us not settle for what is simply 'OK' when we have full information on what can create lasting change."
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Source: An Open Letter to Starbucks and ‘USA Today’ by Rinku Sen, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2015.
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