Thinking Out Loud: Defending the Defenseless

Today’s Thinking Out Loud reflection is on Cervantes  work, Don Quixote.

“Seeing what was going on, Don Quixote said in an angry vie, “Discourteous knight, it ill becomes you to assail on who cannot defend himself, mount your steed and take you land and I will you know that you are behaving as a coward.” Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

Note: Throughout our world, in our cities and towns, and in our neighborhoods, there are people too weak to defend themselves. In a scene from the movie Romero, a peasant woman stops Archbishop Romero on the street and says to him, “If you do not speak for us, who will?” In Ralph Ellison’s book, The Invisible Man, Ellison says, “I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.” Who are the invisible people in your life that need defending?