That's really just my own take rather than a formal philosophy, but I think it's at the essence of the leadership offered by history's "liberation" teachers for

That's really just my own take rather than a formal philosophy, but I think it's at the essence of the leadership offered by history's "liberation" teachers for example. The following is my interpretation: I think individual humans are often fearful about reality which is often outside of our control and goes against what we would prefer to happen. This fear generally expresses itself as individual reserve, which means that even if there is a negative issue in our vicinity, we would rather accept its negative effects then proactively attempt to change it, even if changing the negative issue is within our capability. I think the power of a true liberation teacher (Mandela, MLK Jr., Ghandi, Whitman, Tolstoy, Mohammad, Jesus, Mani, the gautama or whoever you might include in that list that is incomplete) is that they show us that we can travel beyond our fear to improve the world. It's not so much that Ghandi, for example, stood up to the British Empire all by himself, but that he showed his countrymen that they could stand up as well. At a more personal level, consider the teachers and mentors who've helped you and pushed you forward beyond where you thought you could go. They didn't take your math test for you, but expanded your own ability to see success perhaps. They didn't give you that great creative idea, but they supported it or helped you refine it by probing its weaknesses. In addition, we're the product of all the people making incremental improvements and negative effects who have come before us, so no amazing success is the product of a complete vacuum. It's our duty as beneficiaries of that positive balance of improvements versus decrements to at least improve the environment for further improvements in the world's situation despite costs to ourselves. I dunno, that's just my long-winded idea of how we may not be able to do some crazy ground-breaking accomplishment or develop a paradigm-shifting idea ourself, but we can lay the groundwork through our fellow man so that they might themselves. Just a thought...