Photo: Noor-un-Nisa Inayat Khan, c1943, photographer unknown

‘Responsibility means courage to take what seems to be the best action without certainty of results.’

Taking responsibility: Daniel Clarke Flynn learns from history

‘Responsibility means courage to take what seems to be the best action without certainty of results.’

by Daniel Clarke Flynn 31st July 2026

‘Each of us is responsible for our own actions and our own reactions. We are not responsible for someone else’s actions and reactions’ – that’s Alice Wiser at the end of the United Nations Decade of Women (Quaker faith & practice 21.16).