We are the decent people
of the world.
We are in the majority, for men and women are essentially decent.
We live in all nations, we live under all the flags that fly.
Decency is not determined by our economic status, our religion, the language
we speak, the color of our skin, or the ideology under which we live. Human
decency is a universal quality.
We, the decent people of the world, often have our voices drowned out by the
shouts of leaders who misrepresent the things for which we stand.
We the decent people carry enough weight to tip the scale for decency if we
will make ourselves heard...
We believe that war is the great indecency, that it kills and destroys all
the higher sensibilities of man and leaves only death, suffering, and
destruction in its wake.
We believe that this is a beautiful universe and that it is made for
love and not for hate; for peace and not war; for freedom and not slavery;
for order and not riot; for compassion and not violence; for happiness and
not misery.
We believe that there is only one war to be waged in the name of human
decency, and that is the war against all the common enemies of man...
hunger, disease, poverty, ignorance, crime and failure.
We believe that every child should have the chance to grow up in an
atmosphere of faith, not of fear.
We believe that the ultimate decency is to help men and never harm men, to
lift men and not degrade men, and to respect the dignity of all men as
individual human beings.
We the decent people of the world stand for the kind of life that will be
good for all of the people, all of the time, everywhere.
By Wilferd A. Peterson
We
will not be remembered by our words, but by our kind deeds. Life is not
measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath
away.
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Tim
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