Greater Unity Grows From Greater Responsibility

For most of our existence our unity has come from a unified defense against those forces outside AA that threatened us from a wide variety of avenues such as professionalism, affiliation, and anonymity. Our unity was forged in resisting these forces.

We must move beyond unity-by-defense and solidify our future unity through movement toward a common goal – the goal of maturity and responsibility. Only then can Alcoholics Anonymous stand before the court of world opinion and truly say “We have come of age.”

Our parents, the Founders and Class A Trustees, have brought us this far. Further reliance on them would develop a new dependence as destructive to the spirit as the one we have worked so hard to gain release from.