The abolition of slavery in the new world depended "on a transformation in moral perception."
It began with people being "willing to condemn an institution that had been sanctioned for thousands of years and who also strove to make human society something more than an endless contest of greed and power." (Davis)
We are the privileged ones, by birth and opportunity, so let's stand up and declare an end to exploitative, extractive, polluting business practices that sacrifice human health and well-being to satisfy avarice and arrogance.
There is no "acceptable price for...depriving today's children their right to live in a world teaming with the wonders and beauties of creation." (Klein) This comfort we've found, these petty problems we deal with, are nothing compared with the plight of our fellow human and non-human life.
We sit on thrones of material complacency and squabble over conceptual differences while the world burns and her people thirst. All it takes is a willingness to be free from the constraints of ideological individualism and narcissistic self-gratification.
I want to see the masks of self-deception, spirit-deprivation, and distracting materialism come off.
It began with people being "willing to condemn an institution that had been sanctioned for thousands of years and who also strove to make human society something more than an endless contest of greed and power." (Davis)
We are the privileged ones, by birth and opportunity, so let's stand up and declare an end to exploitative, extractive, polluting business practices that sacrifice human health and well-being to satisfy avarice and arrogance.
There is no "acceptable price for...depriving today's children their right to live in a world teaming with the wonders and beauties of creation." (Klein) This comfort we've found, these petty problems we deal with, are nothing compared with the plight of our fellow human and non-human life.
We sit on thrones of material complacency and squabble over conceptual differences while the world burns and her people thirst. All it takes is a willingness to be free from the constraints of ideological individualism and narcissistic self-gratification.
I want to see the masks of self-deception, spirit-deprivation, and distracting materialism come off.
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