An enormous, hidden holocaust is beginning to emerge with more clarity from amongst the friendless memories of history. This one was not against Jews or Armenians, but against Ukrainians. With the consistency of spring water percolating up from the ground, it is becoming more and more certain that the numbers of Ukrainians deliberately killed by the government of the former Soviet Union ranks as one of the worse forms of persecution in human history......Read More
|
"Human beings have still not been able to form a human society, and have still not learned to move with the spirit of a pilgrim. Although many small groups, motivated by self-interest, work together in particular situations, not even a small fraction of their work is done with a broader social motive. By strict definition, shall we have to declare that each small family unit is a society in itself? If going ahead in mutual adjustment only out of narrow self-interest or momentary self-seeking is called society, then in such a society, no provision can be made for the disabled, the diseased or the helpless, because in most cases nobody can benefit from them in any way... in that case there always remains the possibility of some people getting isolated from the collective. All human beings must attach themselves to others by the common bond of love and march forward hand in hand; then only will I proclaim it a society." |