QUTOES
We
have the resources (to end hunger), we know what has to be done, and it's something
that can be achieved at a rather modest cost
I'm
fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
I
didn’t used to care about living a long time. Not that I wasn’t enjoying life,
but I never sat around asking how I’d get to be 100, you know. But now I want
to live long enough to see every school child in the world getting a good, nutritious
lunch every day.
Pay
attention to the hungry, both in this country and around the world. Pay attention
to the poor. Pay attention to our responsibilities for world peace. We are our
brother’s keeper...
So,
I think that’s the centerpiece of morality: Don’t lie. But to do that, you have
to go a step further and find out what the truth is. You know, it’s easy to say,
“I’ll never tell a lie.” But if you say, “I’m going to speak the truth,” you’re
going to have to work damn hard to find out what the truth is. The next thing
is just plain, old, simple kindness: to other people, to your family. Love for
other people. I think that’s another very important part of morality, being genuinely
compassionate and concerned about the feelings and well being of other people,
especially those that depend on you directly.
And
this is the time. It is the time for this land to become again a witness to the
world for what is noble and just in human affairs. It is the time to live more
with faith and less with fear- with an abiding confidence that can sweep away
the strongest barriers between us and teach us that we truly are brothers and
sisters.
So
join with me in this campaign. Lend me your strength and your support-and together,
we will call America home to the ideals that nourished us in the beginning.
From secrecy, and deception in high places, come home, America...
From
military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation, come home, America.
From the entrenchment of special privilege and tax favoritism-
From the waste
of idle hands to the joy of useful labor-
From the prejudice of race and
sex-
From the loneliness of the aging poor and the despair of the neglected
sick, come home, America.
Come home to the affirmation that we have a dream.
Come home to the conviction that we can move our country forward.
Come
home to the belief that we can seek a newer world.
And let us be joyful in
the homecoming,
for:' this land is your land, this land is my land.
From California to the New York Islands.
From the redwood forest to the Gulf
Stream waters.
This land was made for you and me.'
May God grant us
the wisdom to cherish this good land and to meet the great challenge that beckons
us home. This is the time.
