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The Civilized

The Civilized

What are your thoughts about the following quote:

"The civilized have created the wretched, quite coldly and deliberately, and do not intend to change the status quo; are responsible for their slaughter and enslavement; rain down bombs on defenseless children whenever and wherever they decide that their 'vital interests' are menaced, and think nothing of torturing a man to death: these people are not to be taken seriously when they speak of the 'sanctity' of human life, or the 'conscience' of the civilized world."
-- James Baldwin - From chapter one of "The Devil Finds Work" (orig. Pub. 1976)

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The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself -- Robert Ingersoll

The Civilized Health & Special Psychology

I do not agree with the first quote at all. We do not go around and enslave all or drop bombs on all who do not think as we do. We are a people who feel that many can make up of this world and that we all can be civilized and work together in peace. We do not have to enslave or drop bombs to get to that peace.

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'If, while there is yet time, we turn to Justice and obey her, if we trust Liberty and follow her, the dangers that now threaten must disappear, the forces that now menace will turn to agencies of elevation. Think of the powers now wasted; of the infinite fields of knowledge yet to be explored; of the possibilities of which the wondrous inventions of this century give us but a hint. With want destroyed, with greed changed to noble passions, with the fraternity that is born of equality taking the place of the jealousy and fear that now array men against each other, with mental power loosened by conditions which give to the humblest comfort and leisure; who shall measure the heights to which our civilisation may soar?
-- Henry George 1839 - 1897