Saying No
Intelligently, in ways that reopen the gate to the future…
16 min readFeb 13, 2022
The challenge to say NO
In 2014, as part of that year’s Day of Remembrance of genocides and of prevention of crimes against humanity, Bernard Girard, a history teacher, questioned “the obedience of entire societies… and the inability of individuals to say no when they should have said so.”[1]