Great & Meaningful Quotes

The second of the Two Great Commandments: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

And the first of these two commandments helps me abide by this second one!
 

"The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society. They neglect their own children so that the children of others will be cared for; they live in substandard housing so that other homes will be shiny and perfect; they endure privation so that inflation will be low and stock prices high. To be a member of the working poor is to be an anonymous donor, a nameless benefactor, to everyone else."

~~from Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
 
“PITY THE NATION”
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (After Khalil Gibran) 2007

Pity the nation whose people are sheep
And whose shepherds mislead them.

Pity the nation whose leaders are liars
Whose sages are silenced
And whose bigots haunt the airwaves.

Pity the nation that raises not its voice
Except to praise conquerors
And acclaim the bully as hero
And aims to rule the world
By force and by torture.

Pity the nation that knows
No other language but its own
And no other culture but its own.

Pity the nation whose breath is money
And sleeps the sleep of the too well fed.

Pity the nation oh pity the people
who allow their rights to erode
and their freedoms to be washed away.

My country, tears of thee
Sweet land of liberty!
 
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