The Real Test Of A Man Is

Our Social And Economic Statistics Are Telling Us What We Already Know In Our Hearts: We Have Created A World That Works For Only A Few. To Change This, We Must Learn To Act Toward Each Other And Our Environment In Profoundly Different Ways.

Human Rights Are Universal And Indivisible. Human Freedom Is Also Indivisible: If It Is Denied To Anyone In The World, It Is Therefore Denied, Indirectly, To All People. This Is Why We Cannot Remain Silent In The Face Of Evil Or Violence; Silence Merely Encourages Them.

None Of Us Know All The Potentialities That Slumber In The Spirit Of The Population, Or All The Ways In Which That Population Can Surprise Us When There Is The Right Interplay Of Events.

Life Cannot Be Destroyed For Good, Neithercan History Be Brought Entirely To A Halt. A Secret Streamlet Trickles On Beneath The Heavy Lid Of Inertia And Pseudo-events, Slowly And Inconspicuously Undercutting It. It May Be A Long Process, But One Day It Must Happen: The Lid Will No Longer Hold And Will Start To Crack. This Is The Moment When Something Once More Begins Visibly To Happen, Something Truly New And Uniquesomething Truly Historical, In The Sense That History Again Demands To Be Heard.

Anyone Who Takes Himself Too Seriously Always Runs The Risk Of Looking Ridiculous; Anyone Who Can Consistently Laugh At Himself Does Not.