Luxurious Choices

Choosing Social Consciousness
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"The strongest principal of growth lies in human choice."
--Mary Ann Evans (a.k.a.George Elliot)

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photo by Jorge DeVillasante ,
Lowell MA

There is more than just one kind of poverty crying out for a cure.

I have seen enough inequity within political parties, within institutions, within social groups to justify refusing to identify absolutely with any single one. To say, "Yes, I am a Democrat," or "Yes, I am Republican," or "Yes, I am Christian," or "Yes, I am agnostic" or "Yes, I am an academic," is to say I am not an individual, a melding of the great minds who have influenced me and who have come before me. Although imperfect, I would strive to take the best of each belief and apply it to my own sense of meaning, that of working towards social justice, equality and ultimately, peace, through whatever venues present themselves.

"We are still called upon to give aid to the beggar who finds himself in misery and agony on life's highway. But one day, we must ask the question of whether an edifice which produces beggars must not be restructured and refurbished."

--Martin Luther King, Jr.

"When we allow one group to look down upon another, then we may for a short time bring hardship on some particular group of people, but the real hardship is and real wrong is done to democracy and to our nation as a whole."

--Eleanor Roosevelt

"Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them."
--Henry David Thoreau

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"Three passions have governed my life: The longings for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of humankind.

Love brings ecstasy and relieves lonliness. In the union of love I have seen in a mystic miniature the prefiguring vision of the heavens that saints and poets have imagined.

With equal passion, I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of people. I have wished to know why the stars shine.

Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens, but always pity brought me back to Earth; cries of pain reverberated in my heart, of children in famine, of victims tortured, and old people left helpless. I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.

This has been my life; I found it worth living." ----Bertrand Russell

"Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you sometimes find men who disgrace labor." --Ulysses S. Grant

"Years ago, I recognized my kinship with all living things, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on the earth. I say then and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it. While there is a criminal element, I am of it. While there is a soul in prison, I am not free." --Eugene V. Debs