People for a Just World
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” –Anne Frank
People for a Just World
This is not a belief that good things happen to good people and bad things happen to bad people or the belief that good actions will be rewarded at some point. There is no force in the universe ensuring people reap what they sow or making sure what goes around comes back around. The universe is indifferent and if there is a God above that supremebeing decided to endow the human race with free will.
What are people to do with their free will? What is our purpose on this planet? What is the meaning of life?
The short answer… To do good for goodness sake and to follow the golden rule… To respect all life and to work to eliminate suffering… What other purpose can there be?
“It is true that global wealth is growing in absolute terms, but inequalities have also grown, and new poverty arisen.” –Pope Francis
The Road To A More Just World Starts Here
“We don’t have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.”
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“People say, what is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time. A pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. Each one of our thoughts, words and deeds is like that. No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do.” –
What World Religions Teach Us About The Rights of Individuals
& How People Should Be Treated
Around 500 B.C. In India, Gautama Buddha advocates morality, reverence for life, non-violence and right conduct.
Around 500 B.C. Confucian teaching develops based on ‘jen’ or benevolence and respect for other people.
Around 30 A.D. In Palestine, Jesus Christ preaches morality, tolerance, justice, forgiveness and love. The Christian New Testament teaches equality before God: ‘In Christ there is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female.’
Around 620 A.D. In Saudi Arabia, Prophet Mohammed teaches the principles of equality, justice and compassion revealed in the Qur’ān.
“Our worst foes are ignorance, poverty, and the unconscious cruelty of our commercial society.” –Helen Keller
People for a Just World
“I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.”
―George Bernard Shaw
“We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”
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“I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.”
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The World Longed for Peace after World War 2. The 1st world War started in 1914 and end in 1918. World War 2 started 21 years later in 1939 and ended in 1945. After the war organizations and institutions were created and alliances were formed to prevent another world war.
Making the world more connected and countries more dependent on one another
The Bretton Woods Conference, officially known as the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference, was a gathering of delegates from 44 nations that met from July 1 to 22, 1944 in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, to agree upon a series of new rules for the post-WWII international monetary system. The two major accomplishments of the conference were the creation of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD).
The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) was signed by 23 countries in October 1947, after World War II, and became law on Jan. 1, 1948. The purpose of GATT was to make international trade easier. Its goal was to eliminate undesirable trade aspects of the prewar period. GATT held eight rounds of trade negotiations in total, from April 1947 to December 1993, and each had significant achievements and outcomes. 5 World Trade Organization. “Fiftieth Anniversary of the Multilateral Trading System.” In 1995, GATT was absorbed into the World Trade Organization (WTO), which extended it.
The United Nations is an international organization founded in 1945 after the Second World War by 51 countries committed to maintaining international peace and security, developing friendly relations among nations and promoting social progress, better living standards and human rights.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) essential and enduring purpose is to safeguard the freedom and security of all its members. It does this through political and military means, ensuring the collective defence of all Allies, against all threats, from all directions.
There hasn’t been another world war but there still has been many wars with millions of innocent people losing their lives.
“The greatest disease in the West today is not tuberculosis or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for.” –Mother Teresa
People for a Just World
“A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.”
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Everyone has the ability to make the world a better place…
“No one has ever become poor by giving.” –Anne Frank
“Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.” –Eleanor Roosevelt
“What you do makes a difference. And you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” –Jane Goodall
“If you can’t feed a hundred people, then just feed one.” –Mother Teresa
“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars, to change the world.”
You just need to decide you want to and take action!!!
“A society will be judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members.” –Pope John Paul II
“In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the People.”
“Sell your possessions, and give to the needy. Provide yourselves with moneybags that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” –Luke 12:33-34
“By eating meat we share the responsibility of climate change, the destruction of our forests, and the poisoning of our air and water. The simple act of becoming a vegetarian will make a difference in the health of our planet.”
