The important thing is that when you come to understand something you act on it, no matter how small that act is. Eventually it will take you where you need to go.
ATTRIBUTION:
Helen Prejean (b. 1940), U.S. nun and activist against the death penalty. As quoted in the New York Times Magazine, p. 31 (May 9, 1993).
On her evolution into an activist, carrying out a ministry to both death row inmates and the families of their victims.
