I am both pleased and honored to present an original work by SoOC Correspondent and fellow Hamster William Steiskal. His ode to the 99% follows these quotes which he uses to provide context for his work.
“Democracy, disciplined and enlightened is the finest thing in the world.”
“The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of the heart.”
“A true and nonviolent combination of labour would act like a magnet attracting to it all the needed capital. Capitalist would then exist only as trustees. When that happy day dawned, there would be no difference between capital and labour. Those who labour will have ample food, good and sanitary dwellings, all the necessary education for their children, ample leisure for self education and proper medical assistance.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“I behold the surest pledges, that as on one side, no local prejudices, or attachments; no separate views, nor party animosities, will misdirect the comprehensive and equal eye which ought to watch over this great Assemblage of communities and interests: so, on another, that the foundations of our national policy, will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality; and the pre-eminence of free Government, be exemplified by all the attributes which can win the affections of its Citizens, and command the respect of the world.”
Excerpt from George Washington's First Inaugural Address
30 April 1789, Federal Building, Wall Street, New York
“The difficulty is that goodness and fairness are moral issues, not political ones. Government is the human attempt to mandate goodness and ensure fairness. Yet there is only one place where goodness is born, and that is in the human heart. There is only one place where fairness can be conceptualized, and that is in the human mind. There is only one place where love can be experienced truly, and that is in the human soul.”
“The real question is not why do governments impose so many rules and regulations on the people but why do governments have to?”
“If every person on the planet had basic needs met- if the mass of the people could live in dignity and escape the struggle of simple survival- would this not open the way for all of humankind to engage in more noble pursuits? Would individual greatness really be suppressed if individual survival were guaranteed? Must universal dignity be sacrificed to individual glory? What kind of glory is obtained when it is achieved at the expense of another?”
“The evolution of a society is measured by how well it treats the least among its members.”
“What is needed is a growth in consciousness, not a growth of government.”
Excerpts from “Conversations with God” Book 2
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