"Justice entails a requirement to act when we become aware of injustice." --Dalai Lama
Monday, June 29, 2009 - LIFES BIG QUESTIONS
I know the world is full of injustice—yet it doesn't make me want to get on a Greenpeace boat to save the whales or fight the tyrannical health insurance companies or bust innocent people out of jail. I defend my inaction by saying I don't have time... and that there are too many flawed systems... oh, and I’m (alas) not a crime-fighting superhero. We all have to be selective about the battles we choose, but perhaps by doing so, we are turning a blind eye to injustice.
What is one injustice you are actively working against?
:: justice blindfolded by Tyler Earles
I blog about human rights every single day (see profile for link). It's been keeping me pretty busy, but it's worth it if I can make even the smallest difference.
It's good to see others working against injustice out there, it gives me a lot of hope for humanity. :-)
I am aware of many injustices going on in our world from the petty to the serious and everything in between. I'm also aware that though one person cannot singularly change the outline of history as we know it, that one person can change the views of enough people to effect a real change in the world. Ghandi famously said to "Be the change you want to see in the world" and, in essence, change starts from within.
I am a Bahá'i, a member of the Bahá'i Faith (www.bahai.org) which is currently under heavy persecution in Iran where the government is committing mass genocide on the believers in this Faith. These severe injustices are causing me to make a change by spreading the word. We all need to know what's going on. We need to be aware of injustices of all kinds in all places against all people. I am a firm believer that if you are not part of the solution then you are part of the problem. So how do we solve this problem? I don't know exactly but I know that if I let enough people know that there is a problem then someone, somewhere--with enough power to make a change--will hear about it and do something that can stop what's happening from being a reality in our world. When Hitler began his mass genocide against the Jews it didn't start big with concentration camps and what we know call the Holocaust; it started small and trickled into something much bigger. The world ignored the small trickles because it wasn't their fight and they didn't think they had a place to say or do anything to bring change...look at what's happened when we see injustice and we don't bring change. Millions were killed and those who weren't have to live with the memories of what has happened and the guilt that comes with sitting idly and doing nothing.
Be the change you want to see in the world. Fight injustice. The court case for the Baha'i prisoners in Iran is on July 11th, 2009. This day is being called Bahá'i Rights Day and Bahai's everywhere are trying to get the word out to let people know what's going on to try and raise as much attention about this problem as possible. Go to http://twitter.com/BahaiRights or http://twitter.com/bahairightsday for more information on this day.
Don't know anything about the Baha'i situation in Iran? Go to www.iranpresswatch.org or www.bahairights.org/ for more info.
@braxtonrob You and I aren't getting along. What say you just pick your fights in the shallow water. Smarter and less humilation for you. I'm giving you an out, I suggest you take it.
@braxtonrob Had you asked me why I feel the way I do, you might have been able to reach such a conclusion. But you didn't.
Which tells me that you lack intellectual curiosity and are perfectly comfortable calling people names without any real basis.
@zamfir You're absolutely right; you are not at all an idiot. I apologize.
I believe you are a flake; a radical leftist who gives ignorant thought to politics, politicians, and their true motives.
An idiot implies that you're not capable of processing the available information.
I have no doubt that you are capable - you just refuse to examine it closely or process it correctly because you are easily influenced by the TRULY stupid....Hollywood, their celebrities, and their 'news' teams on MSNBC. Barack Obama is just an ambitious politician who knows how to tell voluntarily-ignorant people, like yourself, EXACTLY WHAT THEY WANT TO HEAR.
I stand corrected.
You are...a flake.
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