“When you give food to the poor, they call you a saint. When you ask why the poor have no food, they call you a communist." -- Archbishop Helder Camara, Brazilian liberation theologist (found at http://www.salsa.net/peace/quotes.html, quote #58)

"Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice." -- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice." -- Lord Acton (found at http://www.salsa.net/peace/quotes.html, quote #3)

+ Justice simply means that everything is the way it’s supposed to be. This is the natural state of our heavenly reality. God made it that way. God makes it that way. When we are awake, aware and connected to this reality we know that any earthly illusion of injustice is temporary and ultimately does not exist at all. With this knowledge we can courageously and creatively reduce the earthly illusion of injustice with all of our heart, soul, strength and mind.

But we have to admit that it’s a pretty powerful illusion that we are dealing with here. It will indeed take all our heart, soul, mind and strength to eradicate injustice. Can it be done? I hope so. God’s will be done.

+ Naomi Klein has contributed immensely to our understanding of the effects of the radical capitalist policies which have increasingly dominated our planet for the past 4 decades. A few get fabulously wealthy while most of the rest of us see either little change or see our material wealth decline. Many have been reduced to poverty by these policies which its advocates still say will improve the lives of everyone.

She wrote SHOCK DOCTRINE which tells how the disciples of Milton Friedman have used crisis situations over and over again to implement these radical policies. Often they have taken advantage of situatons during and after some horrible repressive events such as the coup which overthrew the popularly elected Marxist president of Chile in 1973. There is now a documentary named SHOCK DOCTRINE which tells the stories of some of these terrible events.