If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.

Garcia’s remark is a blunt moral challenge aimed less at individual failings than at collective complacency. By stacking colloquial tests of courage (“nerve,” “balls,” “real character”), he suggests that the capacity to confront injustice is not primarily a matter of policy expertise but of will and integrity. The phrase “make an effort” implies that even imperfect, incremental action would be preferable to passive acceptance, while “really address the wrongs” signals impatience with symbolic gestures or rhetoric. “Righteously” frames the project as ethical and restorative—an insistence that a society’s legitimacy depends on facing harms honestly and acting with principled seriousness rather than cynicism or self-interest.