It's not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings

 That paraphrased quote from William Shakespeare’s history play, Julius Caesar in Act I, Scene 2, spoken by Cassius.

"Men at some time are masters of their fates:
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings."
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As contemporary underlings, it cuts both ways for those who'd wash their hands of fault as Pontius Pilate did, after the crowds chose Bar Abbas over Jesus of Nazareth Image: https://www.artnet.com/WebServices/images/ll00235lldBObJFguTECfDrCWvaHBOc2quF/george-hinke-pontius-pilate-washes-his-hands.jpg.

Or back in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar in Antony's eulogy that lambasted 'these were honorable men' who murdered Caesar thinking they were  going to be the 'saviors of the Republic'. Image: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/LwCJcwrkXs0/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AHUBoAC4AOKAgwIABABGGUgZShlMA8=&rs=AOn4CLCGPPmL2gMp04ZsE-MvAowapBkxfw

Other thoughts would say more stoically, as the Bhagavad Gita in Ch. 18 v. 47 Better is one's own duty (though) destitute of merits, than the duty of another well-performed. He who does the duty ordained by his own nature incurs no sin.
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'In these hard times' image: https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/b/motivational-poster-lettering-quote-makers-gonna-make-print-ready-nursery-vector-illustration-stock-158553346.jpg- we have the grace of our instinctual intuitiveness to do and make whatever we can that we can perceive of the moment, no matter how dismissively insignificant it is to others.

We find our humanity in our visceral efforts.
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Be those efforts are establishing the barest mechanics for the sustenance of our aspirational operations. Also providing for or giving aid to those in need as an extension of our baseline operations. Sharing the excess of what's graced us tangibly and intangibly before thinking, exclusively, about what values we should conserve for the long-term benefit for others, as a legacy of our operations.