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value is defined
as:
to
hold dear
a culturally accepted
ideal
worth in usefulness
or importance to the
possessor
a principle,
standard, or quality considered worthwhile or desirable
"A
true revolution of
values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of
our past and present policies.
We are called to play
the good Samaritan on
life's roadside; but that will be only an initial act.
We must come
to see the whole road must be
transformed so that
men and women will not be constantly
robbed as they
journey on life's highway.
Compassion is more than
flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not
superficial.
It
comes to see that an edifice which
produces beggars needs restructuring.
A true revolution of values
will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast.
With righteous
indignation, it will look across the seas and see
individual
capitalists of the West investing huge sums of money in Asia,
Africa and South America,
only to take the profits out with no
concern for the social betterment of the countries, and say: "This is not
just."
It will look at our
alliance with the landed gentry of Latin America and say: "This is not
just."
The Western
arrogance, everything to teach, and nothing to learn.
A true revolution of values will lay
hands on the world order and say of war: "This way of settling differences is not
just."
Burning human beings with
napalm, filling homes with orphans and widows, injecting
poisonous drugs of hate into veins of
people normally humane, sending men home from dark
and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and
psychologically deranged,
cannot be reconciled.
A nation that continues year after year to spend
more money on military endeavors than on programs of
social uplift is approaching spiritual death.
America, the richest nation on Earth, can lead
a revolution of values.
Only
a tragic death wish
prevents America from reordering priorities, so that
the pursuit of peace will take
precedence over the pursuit of war.
There is nothing to keep us
from molding a recalcitrant status quo with bruised hands until we have
fashioned it into a brotherhood.
A genuine revolution of values
means in the final analysis that our loyalties must become ecumenical rather
than sectional.
Every nation must now develop an overriding loyalty
to mankind as a whole in order to
preserve the best in individual
societies. " - Martin Luther
King
"In fact, it is a farce to call any being
virtuous whose virtues do
not result from the exercise of its own reason." - Mary Wollstonecraft
"The perfume of
flowers goes not against the wind, not
even the perfume of sandalwood, of rose-bay, or of jasmine; but the perfume of
virtue travels against the wind and reaches unto the ends of the world." -
Dhammapada
"Every performance by which man, contrary to the
impulse of nature, should endeavour the benefit of others, or the conquest of
his own passions, out of a rational ambition of being good."
- Bernard
Mandeville's definition of virtue
virtue
is:
courage
patience
purity
of soul
integrity of
character
morality in
sexual relations
doing what is good and escaping what is
evil
 virtue is not patience with your jailer
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