"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963.
I know this is an international forum, but here in the US we celebrate a great man the second Monday in January. It's a good excuse for me to issue a challenge on my favorite soapbox (see links in signature, below): what are you doing to deal with injustice in your community?
Wherever you live, there are people being held in slavery. Not metaphorical, psychological, things-aren't-as-good-as-I-want slavery, or I-hate-this-damn-job slavery, or even how-did-I-get-so-deep-in-debt slavery, but the real, physical thing.
And there are places that may be very far from you, but where a person with the access to a computer, who doesn't need to put every waking moment into a struggle to survive, can make a huge difference with just a little effort. Sometimes just by bothering to look.
Look into it. You can change the world. Martin Luther King did.
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in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.
- MLE (Emily Cotton)
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- Interest in HF: started in childhood with the classics, which, IMHO are HF even if they were contemporary when written.
- Favourite HF book: Prince of Foxes, by Samuel Shellabarger
- Preferred HF: Currently prefer 1600 and earlier, but I'll read anything that keeps me turning the page.
- Location: California Bay Area