Politics

Listening to the radio last week, I heard a talk about former Ambassador Andrew Young.  He is an ordained minister and was a colleague of Martin Luther King, Jr. in the civil rights movement.  He said that is his political career he had four goals that he wanted to address in each of his decisions.

Feed the hungry
Heal the sick
Clothe the naked
Set at liberty those who are oppressed

He was the Ambassador to the United Nations in the Carter administration.  When he first began, the elders of the Native American bands of New York came to him to remind him that he was not their ambassador.  They wanted to give him some advise from their ancestors, though.  They said, "When we make decisions we must think of the seventh generation yet unborn."  Young said that if politicians today began to think of the second generation yet unborn, they would get things a lot better than they are now.

I have just begun reading an abridged version of Les Miserables by Victor Hugo.  Here is a quote from the Monseigneur Bienvenu.

"The faults of women, of children, of the feeble, the indigent, and the ignorant, are the fault of the husbands, the fathers, the strong, the rich and the wise."