Those who have won the ovarian lottery by being born in an advanced society to loving parents have a special obligation to help restore the American Dream.
Interpretation
We have a duty to support those less fortunate, especially when we are born into privilege.
This quote highlights the moral responsibility of individuals born into advantageous circumstances, such as in a prosperous society and with supportive families, to contribute to the betterment of society. It emphasizes the idea that privilege comes with obligations to help those who are less fortunate in order to foster equality and restore opportunities like the American Dream for all.
In practice
In a speech advocating for social justice, one could use this quote to emphasize the need for community support.
Truly, learning appears to be a reverse geometric progression with experiences at one hour, one day, one month or one year dramatically more influential and formative than later experiences. As has often been quoted, 85% of brain development takes place by age 3, and yet we spend only 4% of our educational dollars by that point.
One day the absurdity of the almost universal human belief in the slavery of other animals will be palpable. We shall then have discovered our souls and become worthier of sharing this planet with them.
The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one.
There is nothing so great or so goodly in creation, but that it is a mean symbol of the gospel of Christ, and of the things He has prepared for them that love Him.
When men, engaged in unjustifiable pursuits, are aware that obstructions may come from a quarter which bare apprehension of opposition from doing what they would with eagerness rush into if no such external impediments were to be feared.
The same relation exists between merchant and pirate, who for a long period are one and the same person: where the one function appears to them inadvisable, they exercise the other.
I don't think you can hate anything that you know intimately. There is no fine line separating love from hate because there's a deep chasm separating love from hate.
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