Friday, July 1, 2011

Radical, Revolutionary, and American

America is a country in which the rights and welfare and health of all of its citizens have been paramount since its founding. We have significant responsibilities for ourselves, and to/for each other, and the attitude that some persons are not worthy of respect and health care is un-American, even when that attitude is manifested by a person elected or appointed to a federal office.  Read on -

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
 ......Declaration of Independence

We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish a Constitution for the United States of America.
.....United States Constitution

In the future days which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms: freedom of speech and expression, everywhere in the world; freedom of every person to worship God in his own way, everywhere in the world; freedom from want which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants, everywhere in the world; freedom from fear, which means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical agression against any neighbor, anywhere in the world.
 .....Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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