I Dream Of Things That Are Not

Since The Days Of Greece And Rome The Word 'citizen' Was A Title Of Honor. We Have Often Seen More Emphasis Put On The Rights Of Citizenship Than On Its Responsibilities.

About One Month Before He Was Killed, When Asked By David Frost How His Obituary Should Read: Something About The Fact That I Made Some Contribution To Either My Country, Or Those Who Were Less Well Off. I Think Back To What Camus Wrote About The Fact That Perhaps This World Is A World In Which Children Suffer, But We Can Lessen The Number Of Suffering Children, And If You Do Not Do This, Then Who Will Do This? I'd Like To Feel That I'd Done Something To Lessen That Suffering.

While Free Markets Tend To Democratize A Society, Unfettered Capitalism Leads Invariably To Corporate Control Of Government.

Whenever Any American's Life Is Taken By Another American Unnecessarily - Whether It Is Done In The Name Of The Law Or In The Defiance Of The Law, By One Man Or A Gang, In Cold Blood Or In Passion, In An Attack Of Violence Or In Response To Violence - Whenever We Tear At The Fabric Of The Life Which Another Man Has Painfully And Clumsily Woven For Himself And His Children, The Whole Nation Is Degraded.

Every Time We Turn Our Heads The Other Way When We See The Law Flouted, When We Tolerate What We Know To Be Wrong, When We Close Our Eyes And Ears To The Corrupt Because We Are Too Busy Or Too Frightened, When We Fail To Speak Up And Speak Out, We Strike A Blow Against Freedom And Decency And Justice.