Too often we discuss human suffering and starvation in the abstract. We have a vague notion of what starving children are suffering, but for too many of us the concept isn’t real enough.
Let this image make human suffering real for you. Let this image stir your humanity. Suffering is real and we do have the means to relieve it. Politics and religion get in the way of providing children like this any real relief. We must listen to our sense of humanity, we must accept the family of man. We will never solve these very real and deadly issues so long as we allow ourselves to think that these children and our children are different, that there’s no commonality between us.
Saturday, December 5th, 2009, 2:39 pm | 
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