I Am Not One Of

Since The Days Of Greece And Rome The Word 'citizen' Was A Title Of Honor. We Have Often Seen More Emphasis Put On The Rights Of Citizenship Than On Its Responsibilities.

The Gross National Product Includes Air Pollution And Advertising For Cigarettes, And Ambulances To Clear Our Highways Of Carnage. It Counts Special Locks For Our Doors, And Jails For The People Who Break Them ... It Does Not Allow For The Health Of Our Families, The Quality Of Thier Education, Or The Joy Of Their Play.

Our Future May Lie Beyond Our Vision, But It Is Not Completely Beyond Our Control. It Is The Shaping Impulse Of America That Neither Fate Nor Nature Nor The Irresistible Tides Of History, But The Work Of Our Own Hands, Matched To Reason And Principle.

Some Believe There Is Nothing One Man Or One Woman Can Do Against The Enormous Array Of The World’s Ills... Yet Many Of The World’s Great Movements, Of Thought And Action, Have Flowed From The Work Of A Single Man

All Of Us Might Wish At Times That We Lived In A More Tranquil World, But We Don't. And If Our Times Are Difficult And Perplexing, So Are They Challenging And Filled With Opportunity.