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| Perspective |
| On Affordable Housing In Richmond |
We are the people charged to take responsibility for the injustice done unto our
people. As we push forward to provide for decent affordable housing and
communities, it requires a realization that economic injustice is a family problem.
Since we are all “God's offspring, we all have the same Father.
Therefore, all mankind are sisters and brothers. Exploitation is merely treating
another as an object. Poverty is wrong not just because it means financial hardship,
but also because it involves exclusion from community. Human rights must demand
that we treat people to whom God has given such dignity and worth as such. It is our
responsibility to see to it that justice includes restoration of the things people need for
dignified participation in their community: to make them strong that they may live
inclusively not being excluded. This is the year of Jubilee and it will take bold,
courageous leaders like you, who see the future brighter than the present and will
sacrifice for that great place for all sisters and brothers, to be Family. I believe!
1. All people who can work should. And that work should produce resources so that if
handed a responsibly, they can produce or purchase an abundant sufficiency of all
that is needed to enjoy a dignified, healthy life in community.
2. The difference in wealth between the rich and the poor dare not become so great
that great inequalities of wealth and therefore power lead to oppression.
3. Those who can not care for themselves should receive from their community a
liberal sufficiency of the necessities of life provided in ways that preserve dignity,
encourage responsibility, and strengthen the family.
Poverty is a scandal in the richest nation on earth. Join up and lead the way in
offering new opportunities to the bottom 70 percent of our family.
people. As we push forward to provide for decent affordable housing and
communities, it requires a realization that economic injustice is a family problem.
Since we are all “God's offspring, we all have the same Father.
Therefore, all mankind are sisters and brothers. Exploitation is merely treating
another as an object. Poverty is wrong not just because it means financial hardship,
but also because it involves exclusion from community. Human rights must demand
that we treat people to whom God has given such dignity and worth as such. It is our
responsibility to see to it that justice includes restoration of the things people need for
dignified participation in their community: to make them strong that they may live
inclusively not being excluded. This is the year of Jubilee and it will take bold,
courageous leaders like you, who see the future brighter than the present and will
sacrifice for that great place for all sisters and brothers, to be Family. I believe!
1. All people who can work should. And that work should produce resources so that if
handed a responsibly, they can produce or purchase an abundant sufficiency of all
that is needed to enjoy a dignified, healthy life in community.
2. The difference in wealth between the rich and the poor dare not become so great
that great inequalities of wealth and therefore power lead to oppression.
3. Those who can not care for themselves should receive from their community a
liberal sufficiency of the necessities of life provided in ways that preserve dignity,
encourage responsibility, and strengthen the family.
Poverty is a scandal in the richest nation on earth. Join up and lead the way in
offering new opportunities to the bottom 70 percent of our family.
