In a time when many focus on the outside forces against them, Javon Rahman Bertrand, is writing to help us guard ourselves from within. We must guard the gates of our person. Before we can guard our city, state or nation, we need to be able to guard ourselves. One of the greatest lessons we can learn is how to guard the gates of our person. "Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside." Marilyn Ferguson.