I have known Rev Comrade Rowley for six months. We met at the University of Western Sydney. Rev Comrade Rowley has increasingly impressed me with his honesty, integrity, tenacity, and commitment to the struggle for freedom of all oppressed groups.
Despite enduring much personal pain and hurt through oppression and antagonism from a group he had come to love and respect, he has found the strength to fight for justice for all. (Too often in social justice, we can observe people displace their personal needs above fighting for the rights of others)
Perhaps more than anything that I find inspiring about Rev is that he has not given up the fight for the majority and nor has he resorted to displacing his righteous anger and pain onto others. Instead, he has remained focused on the core problem, being one of miscommunication, ignorance, and fear. Too often we listen to the voices of the powerful rather than to go beyond the façade to see that the truth is not only stronger than fiction but is also estranged from our society which relies on lies to prop up its shaky foundations.
Rev's heart for social justice for all means that he can only fight for what he knows to be true beneath the fiction. Fortunately, for the Socialist Alliance, he is also true to himself. I commend and support Rev in his struggle to have the truth heard to reunite. At that time both Rev and his party will become stronger and renewed.
Maureen Grant
RESISTING CHANGE IS ONE OF THE MOST DESTRUCTIVE FORCES
"The only constant changes. Those who fail to change, fail to grow, and become stagnant. Change is painful but there is no other way/"
Despite enduring much personal pain and hurt through oppression and antagonism from a group he had come to love and respect, he has found the strength to fight for justice for all. (Too often in social justice, we can observe people displace their personal needs above fighting for the rights of others)
Perhaps more than anything that I find inspiring about Rev is that he has not given up the fight for the majority and nor has he resorted to displacing his righteous anger and pain onto others. Instead, he has remained focused on the core problem, being one of miscommunication, ignorance, and fear. Too often we listen to the voices of the powerful rather than to go beyond the façade to see that the truth is not only stronger than fiction but is also estranged from our society which relies on lies to prop up its shaky foundations.
Maureen Grant
RESISTING CHANGE IS ONE OF THE MOST DESTRUCTIVE FORCES
"The only constant changes. Those who fail to change, fail to grow, and become stagnant. Change is painful but there is no other way/"
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