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Committed to Life

February 19, 2007

We have committed the golden rule to memory; let us now commit it to life - Edwin Markham, 1852 – 1940 American poet

 Among other things, Edwin Markham wrote about child labor. He called the children who worked in turn of the century American sweat shops the “Golden children.”

 Thankfully, that kind of exploitation of children, and of workers in general, is mostly a thing of the past in North America. That it still exists at all, and is still so prevalent in many parts of the world, is ample testimony that, for all of the distance we have come, we have by no means run the race.

 It is easy to make statements talking about our principles; to commit, as Markham says, the universal principle of justice and equality to memory. It is much more difficult to commit ourselves to live it, in even the smallest part.

 Yet, may we have the courage to try.

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