one step farther

"Gandhis, Mother Teresa, Martin Luther King Jr, Thomas Merton, these people were not perfect but: in their penetration through the obsession with service, security, and significance, they threaten our measured standards of righteousness and goodness and prudence...Universalisers are often experienced as subversives of the structures by which we maintain our individual and corporate survival, security, and significance. Many persons at this stage die at the hands of those whom they hope to change. There are few who make it here."