The world is coming to be defined by competing slanders and
obfuscations. Clarity, honesty, openness and nurture are
revolutionary. What really needs to be said? Are you the one to say
it? How, when and where will it be most helpful? There are those
who break silence only when it will be like a sunrise, and we know to
treasure them.
As for the qualities of which you may know, 'These qualities lead to dispassion, not to passion; to being unfettered, not to being fettered; to shedding, not to accumulating; to modesty, not to self-aggrandizement; to contentment, not to discontent; to seclusion, not to entanglement; to aroused persistence, not to laziness; to being unburdensome, not to being burdensome': You may categorically hold, 'This is the Dhamma, this is the Vinaya, this is the Teacher's instruction.
-- Buddha to Mahapajapati, Gotami Sutta, tr. Thanissaro Bhikkhu