retrieve their dignity / tantalizing - help me with these sentences?

Are the bolded parts correct? I dunno if the usages are correct... but tantalizing seems a bit wrong.
"It was tantalizing to me, to sort out what really happened and to help them retrieve their dignity. But I also felt weighted."

And how should I condense the following sentences, or write them in a clearer, more objective way? Sorry I am not a native speaker...
"These fears made me feel shameful, but they also reminded me the reality."

"By tuning out the political context of XX, which would not tolerate civil disobedience, I dismissed the fact that the drivers infringed the law and disrupted public order."

And for this sentence, I don't know how to express my thoughts...What I intended to mean is that: the more I learn about the world, the more I understand, so I become more empowered, and can see more possibilities, so I can better help the ignorant to overcome their ignorance...But I need to express them in only one sentence...

This is my sentence: "The more I learn I about this world, the more I can help the ignorant."

Great thanks everyone!

I need context in order to revise your first sentence correctly but you can change the first sentence into active tense. " I tantalized to sort out... and was helped to retrieve their dignity..."

"It was tantalizing to me. To sort out what really happened and to help them (WHO?) retrieve their dignity was ___________. But I also felt burdened by________."

"These fears shamed me, but they reminded me of _________."