The kind of support the down-and-out need is the kind we have always refused them, the kind that would mean engaging with them not as objects of contempt, but as fellow human beings.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us.
We do not support people who are anarchistic, opportunistic, adventuristic, and Custeristic.
As a civilised society, we have a duty to support those among us who are vulnerable and in need. When times are hard, that duty should be felt more than ever, not disappear or diminish.
If we don't fight hard enough for the things we stand for, at some point we have to recognize that we don't really stand for them.
The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.
I love revolutionaries who have the courage to stand up against the status quo. They're always misunderstood, but they're the ones who are standing up for human rights.
We are fully aware that, in a world at war, each set of belligerents is over ready to regard those who are not with them as against them; but the course we have followed is a just course.
If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
I suppose for whatever reason I actively welcome being put down, something which perhaps goes back to my upbringing - that accusation of not being worthy which could be laid at one's door.
Let's continue to stand up for those who are vulnerable to being left out or marginalized.