Often it will mean separating yourself from the crowd or bandwagon, showing an unwillingness to be caught up in the gang. To be a person of integrity in this sense means not going along with everybody else because it's the easiest thing to do. It may indeed be the easiest but not be the right thing to do, at least not right for you. For some, reflecting and then choosing between right and wrong is going to be difficult, difficult because of the choice. Now I know that there often are times when staying in the middle can be the best choice, a difficult decision, the best path to follow - but we all know too that that's not all the time, that to be a person of integrity is going to mean choosing, not being in the middle.
Integrity means taking the time and thinking about that choice.
And after choosing, then acting . Even as a UU minister, even I have a limit to how much analysis I can stand. By the final day of presentations I'd just about had it with all the talk, which always included recommendations. First suggesting, then strongly urging, I challenged the group of 60 to highlight the many common conclusions we'd heard in paper after paper, and bring those as recommendations to the Congress of 300 for action. Needless to say I was disappointed when a university student from Japan didn't share my sense of urgency and challenge, and told the group that they had already met their goals of analysis, reflection and dialog, and action beyond that was unwarranted.