Responding to the Quote

"All that it takes for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing." - Sir Edmund Burke, 1769.

To me this quote has a simple but powerful meaning. Evil is everywhere. Look around you will see it. There are small examples like bullying and big examples like the holocaust. But if good people stand up against evil it will crumple. If you stand up against a bully then they will fall because you aren't the only one who thinks what the bully is doing is wrong. Sometimes in order for other people to act they have to see someone go first. But I think that is the single most vital flaw. A lot of people need a leader and if everyone needs a leader no one will lead, no one will stand up against evil. So this quote also speaks to me about courage. Sometimes you might really want someone to go first but that doesn't always happen and you have to bit down your fear and know that what you are doing is right and have faith in that alone. Take the holocaust for example, if no one said what Hitler was doing was wrong then we would live in a horrible, different world and thousands of more lives would have been lost. When we went into that war we didn't know how it was going to end all we knew is that what Hitler was doing was wrong. That was enough for us so we stood up against evil and it fell.