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Some Wood types use their excess energy and rebelliousness by protesting against things or by seeking justice for others. Their frustrations and anger then get positively channelled and become righteous indignation. Many Wood types hate to see injustice of any kind. Julie told us:

I abhor seeing people being badly treated. I also get angry about inequality. When I heard that company directors are getting huge pay rises I felt like spitting blood. What about all the poor people? Don’t they care? I get frustrated because I can’t do anything. I often write letters to my MP though. I get rid of some of my frustration that way.

Wood types will often join organizations which are aimed at making the world a better place. Rachel, for example, told us:

I’ve been a member of Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace where meetings are full of people like myself who are protesting. We are always thinking of plans and ideas about how to improve the world. We feel strongly that if everybody took responsibility by not driving unnecessarily or by recycling their rubbish it would make the world a better place to live.

There are many ways that people can seek betterment for others. People can become MPs, local councillors, solicitors or barristers in order to fight for the rights for others. Others like Rachel may join organizations such as Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth or Amnesty International or they may take up lobbying. These Wood types may spotlight miscarriages of justice, lobby for animal rights, march for world peace or lobby for many other areas of social change or the rights of others.

Many other Wood types will fight quietly for the rights of their colleagues and friends when necessary. This may be at work via their union or just by standing up to the boss who is being short sighted in dealing with her or his employees. Not all the people who protest and lobby are Wood types of course but there will be a fair percentage of this type pursuing their feelings of indignation in good causes. Here a colleague described a Wood type she knows:

I have a friend who always has an issue. He says, ‘You’ve got to give it a shout. If you don’t shout about it nothing gets done.’ He goes to all the meetings, stands for elections and does anything to get in to say something in protest. Issues can be legalize cannabis, new roads, close circuit TV, anything that stops people from having freedom. He even sings protest songs and is a good musician!

We can speculate about the first singers of protest songs in the 60s and wonder if many of them were Wood types. Many of Bob Dylan’s songs such as ‘Masters of War’ still ring loud in people’s ears. We can also look at many other well-known protesters such as Martin Luther King who started the civil rights movement in the US when he was appalled by the lack of rights for black people. Christabel Pankhurst, who we write about at the end of this chapter, fought tirelessly to gain women the right to vote and Elizabeth Fry worked to reform British prisons in the last century.

The next pattern is less up front than ‘seeking justice’.