our convictions define what matters to us
Page 65 our convictions define what matters to us. We anchor ourselves in beliefs and values that guide our lives. Our convictions motivate our advocacy for a better world. They give us courage to speak an act. We must always take sides, said the holocaust survivor Eli, weasel. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. To be silent is to be complicit added sister, Helen preen in her 1993 book dead man walking .
— from True North (Ethics, Integrity, Truth, Values)