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hold dear
principles
regard highly,
think much of
monetary or material
worth
the relative duration of a musical note
relative
darkness or
lightness of a color
precise
meaning or import, as of a word
an
ideal accepted by some individual or
group
place a value on, judge the worth of
some thing
a numerical quantity measured or
assigned or computed
worth in usefulness or importance to the possessor;
utility or merit
a principle, standard, or quality considered worthwhile
or desirable
an amount, as of goods, services, or
money, considered to be a fair and suitable
equivalent for something else; a fair price or return
"A true
revolution of values will soon
cause us to question the fairness and justice of
many of our past and present policies.
On the one hand we are called
to play the good
Samaritan on life's
roadside; but that will be only an
initial act. One day we must come to see that the
whole Jericho road must be
transformed so that
men and women
will not be constantly beaten and robbed as
they make their journey on
life's highway.
True compassion is more than
flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and
superficial. It comes to see
that an edifice which produces beggars needs
restructuring. A true
revolution of values will soon look
uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth. With righteous indignation, it will look across
the seas and see individual capitalists of
the West investing huge sums of money in Asia,
Africa and South America, only to take the profits out with no concern for the
social betterment of the countries, and say: "This is
not just."
It will look at our alliance with
the landed gentry of Latin America and say: "This is not just."
The Western arrogance of feeling that it
has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not
just.
A true
revolution of values will lay hands
on the world order and say of war: "This way
of settling differences is not just."
This
business of burning human beings with napalm,
of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting
poisonous drugs of hate into veins of people
normally humane, of sending men home from dark
and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and
psychologically deranged, cannot be
reconciled without wisdom, justice and love. A nation that
continues year after year to spend more money
on military
endeavors than on programs
of social uplift is approaching
spiritual death.
America, the richest and most powerful nation on Earth, can
well lead the way in this revolution of values. There is
nothing, except a tragic death
wish, to prevent us from reordering our
priorities, so that the pursuit of peace will
take precedence over the pursuit of war.
There is nothing to keep us from molding a recalcitrant status quo with bruised
hands until we have fashioned it into a brotherhood.
A genuine
revolution of values means in the
final analysis that our loyalties must
become ecumenical rather than sectional. Every nation must now develop an
overriding loyalty to mankind as a whole in
order to preserve the best in their individual societies. " -
Martin Luther King Jr.,
Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient
gratitude
Thanksgiving
We return thanks to our
mother, the earth, which sustains us. We return thanks to the rivers and
streams, which supply us with water. We return thanks to all herbs, which
furnish medicines for the cure of our diseases. We return thanks to the
moon and stars, which have given to us their light when the sun was gone.
We return thanks to the sun, that has looked upon the earth with a
beneficent eye. Lastly, we return thanks to the Great Spirit, in Whom
is embodied all goodness, and Who directs all things for the good of Her
children. Iroquois
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