No issue is an island. Every issue affects others, and there can be unintended consequences. You might be called to focus on one issue, while someone else is called to focus on another. Instead of seeing other issues as competition, recognize that there is much work to be done and support the labor of others when you can. Injustices are connected to other injustices anyway: education is tied to the criminal justice system, which is tied to poverty, and so on. We can’t focus on every issue, but when we isolate an issue and ignore all others, we can lose perspective and end up damaging our
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