How to Use Social Powers to Protect Yourself

Sometimes like if you're a cisgender white male there often isn't a lot of threats to you yourself right unless it's a threat or a compromise to someone in your family. Sometimes I think and this is where progressives sometimes work themselves into stitches is like I don't want to only be fighting for my own identity right for my own protections so how do I use my societal powers to try to push back against any organization that is harming people who aren't like me? Maybe that harm will never come back at me directly but it still matters to me "I think choose your battles absolutely"