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.
If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and Hiroshima. The people must unite or they will perish.
A man may easier see without eyes, speak without a tongue, than truly mortify one sin without the Spirit.
If the philosophy of Christianity were lived, wars would cease, unhappiness would cease, economic problems would be solved, poverty would be wiped from the face of the earth, and man's inhumanity to man would be transmuted into a spirit of mutual helpfulness.
Men will find that they can ... avoid far more easily the perils which beset them on all sides by united action.
False greatness is unsociable and remote: conscious of its own frailty, it hides, or at least averts its face, and reveals itself only enough to create an illusion and not be recognized as the meanness that it really is. True greatness is free, kind, familiar and popular; it lets itself be touched and handled, it loses nothing by being seen at close quarters; the better one knows it, the more one admires it.
I've always preferred writing about grey characters and human characters. Whether they are giants or elves or dwarves, or whatever they are, they're still human, and the human heart is still in conflict with the self.
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