A living democracy is sustained through the active participation of its citizens, through the questions and innovative responses of engaged individuals, grassroots groups, and public figures.
The existence of suffering, inequity, gross disparities between the “have’s” and the “have-not’s”, challenge the ideal of the American Dream, of “freedom and justice for all “
1. "If it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally, to do it."
2. "Thus, if everyone does what he ought to do the result will not be as god if everyone did a little less than he ought to do, or if only some do all that they ought to."
3. "The charitable man may be praised, but the man who is not charitable is not condemned."
4. "Moral attitudes are shaped by the needs of society, and no doubt society needs people who will observe the rules that make social existence tolerable."
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