A quote from Desmond Tutu that is applicable today: “During the dark days of the struggle, when morale of our people was often low in the face of rampant evil, I used to say: ‘This is a moral universe- the upholders of apartheid have already lost.’”
The matter of demanding that people work for food, or for anything that supports and sustains them, is an interesting problem. I wish I could assume that people who have an urge to make a demand like that don't mean making disabled people do work they're not able to do.
If I can make that assumption, then the question becomes what it means to "work." How hard would anyone want to demand that someone else work? How hard does the person making the demand work?
The fact is that the vast, vast, vast majority of people who get money are not counterfeiters: they do not create their own money. The money they get they take from everyone else. And no one can perform "work" that will produce millions, or tens of millions, or hundreds of millions, or billions, etc of dollars. You get that kind of money simply by taking more than the "work" is worth.
Would the people who demand that poor people, for example, work for food and support be content to have those people do modest work, and get exorbitant compensation, as the people who make the demand do? I wonder if it distorts anyone's view of these things to be in Congress, and get to vote yourself whatever compensation you want, which everyone else is forced to pay. Most of the rest of us don't get that.
Rev. William Barber , Moral Monday March to the Rotunda peacefully praying for our country and the poor . A stand against this immoral corrupt WH was very inspiring. It's sad they arrested him but his fight continues.
A quote from Desmond Tutu that is applicable today: “During the dark days of the struggle, when morale of our people was often low in the face of rampant evil, I used to say: ‘This is a moral universe- the upholders of apartheid have already lost.’”
No Future Without Forgiveness by Desmond Tutu. Christ, the Lord; Out of Egypt by Anne Rice
Dear Qasim: KEEP WRITING; KEEP SPEAKING. YES, your voice is being heard, and it is helping. Stuyvesant
The matter of demanding that people work for food, or for anything that supports and sustains them, is an interesting problem. I wish I could assume that people who have an urge to make a demand like that don't mean making disabled people do work they're not able to do.
If I can make that assumption, then the question becomes what it means to "work." How hard would anyone want to demand that someone else work? How hard does the person making the demand work?
The fact is that the vast, vast, vast majority of people who get money are not counterfeiters: they do not create their own money. The money they get they take from everyone else. And no one can perform "work" that will produce millions, or tens of millions, or hundreds of millions, or billions, etc of dollars. You get that kind of money simply by taking more than the "work" is worth.
Would the people who demand that poor people, for example, work for food and support be content to have those people do modest work, and get exorbitant compensation, as the people who make the demand do? I wonder if it distorts anyone's view of these things to be in Congress, and get to vote yourself whatever compensation you want, which everyone else is forced to pay. Most of the rest of us don't get that.
Rev. William Barber , Moral Monday March to the Rotunda peacefully praying for our country and the poor . A stand against this immoral corrupt WH was very inspiring. It's sad they arrested him but his fight continues.