We like to attack injustice and cruelty, hardship, illness, barbarism. We want to indict history or our oppressors. And to an extent, this is as it should be. We should resist and transform these things in our cultures and relationships. But from another perspective, these forces drive us into growth, development, and, if we are awake, companionship. In this sense, our memories of suffering and injustice are like the precursor to a kind of fuel we can use to achieve flight in a domain of learning. We just have to process the raw material effectively. We have to decide what to do with it, and then create the fuel from the pain and memory, from the history. There is a time to set down the indictments of history and transform their power into momentum for excellence. This seems an appropriate application of the resources acquired through suffering.