Haven't read the speech. Will do so.
The point is you don't have to fast to give food to hungry. The problem is not a food shortage - it is a distribution inequity ( or inefficiency ) This is true locally and globally.
This is "I feel your pain". I think those in pain really don't give a damn if you feel their pain or not - as long as you make their pain stop.
There are too many hollywood celeb style "awareness" gestures and not enough focused action on solution.
>>Asking an American to make a pointless gesture instead of actually doing something useful is exactly the kind of blather that is intended to make people feel righteous and good about themselves rather than actually helping people who need it.
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>If 5% of all Americans feed the poor, you really deny that a national day to fast-and-donate-your-meals would at the very least double the amount of donations coming in?
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>By the way, did you read the speech of Lincoln's I posted?
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
