All Are Responsible While some hold guilt, we all share responsibility

In a free society, all are involved in what some are doing. Some are guilty; all are responsible.

Credit: Abraham Joshua Heschel

I love quotations, and given my interest in responsibility (I have written a lot about it in my blook), I had to include this quote. Heschel’s point is that guilt rests with individuals, but responsibility is shared.

Even when only one person commits a wrongful act, the wider community has shaped the conditions that made it possible.

In a free society, we all have a duty to create norms and institutions that prevent injustice from taking root.