There are the childish dreamers who conjure up utopias without knowing anything about how the world works. There are the cynical men who, having become disenchanted and disillusioned, tolerate any injustice or social condition even unto slavery without protest.
Less common are the men who see the world for what it is but also see how it can be improved when it has fallen too far and find the will to sacrifice to make it so.
We know this world of men cannot be populated by angels but neither should it be brimming with demons. We know that we cannot by legislation turn men into saints but neither should we give license to those excesses which tear apart at the moral fabric of society by permitting poisonous ideas and modes of living to be promoted to children in the flower of their youth and the peak of their naïveté, so that they destroy themselves before they have a chance to grow to be men and women.
We cannot rid the world of evil but we can fight for a world in which an average man and an average woman can thrive with their average children without wanting for the basic necessities of life and without being mired in filth.
Less common are the men who see the world for what it is but also see how it can be improved when it has fallen too far and find the will to sacrifice to make it so.
We know this world of men cannot be populated by angels but neither should it be brimming with demons. We know that we cannot by legislation turn men into saints but neither should we give license to those excesses which tear apart at the moral fabric of society by permitting poisonous ideas and modes of living to be promoted to children in the flower of their youth and the peak of their naïveté, so that they destroy themselves before they have a chance to grow to be men and women.
We cannot rid the world of evil but we can fight for a world in which an average man and an average woman can thrive with their average children without wanting for the basic necessities of life and without being mired in filth.