Ordinary People

What is easy is to stand up

When the injustice is against you

What is hard is to stay standing

When the injustice isn't about you

But it takes ordinary people

And extraordinary circumstances

To think better

To do better

To be better

Ordinary people

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What is easy is to turn a blind eye

When the shots weren't fired at your family (yet)

When is hard is to feel traumatized

When the drama doesn't affect your family (yet)

But it takes ordinary people

And extraordinary circumstances

To think bigger

To act bigger

To be bigger

Ordinary people

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What is easy is to not stop and wonder

How all the -isms and -phobias aren't deal breakers

How they aren't humane reflexes for all

But,

How we can strive to make them knee jerks

Because it takes ordinary people

And extraordinary circumstances

To think kinder

To act kinder

To be kinder

Ordinary people

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Neutrality serves no purpose in moral crises

And it takes ordinary people

And extraordinary circumstances

To spread humanity like Nutella

To ensure it covers the entire toast

And leaves no room for disarray in the one and only tribe

The human tribe

Made of ordinary people

And extraordinary circumstances

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That is really all it takes.

(This was also published on Dear Fellow Human and Medium.)