Global poverty is a powder keg that could be ignited by our indifference.

It's pathetic. I can't explain it. I don't want to sound like I'm ... moaning but there is massive indifference. It starts with the top at city hall and extends to the cultural institutions.

And I did work out something: that the rich of the earth indeed create misery, but they cannot bear to see it. They are weaklings and fools just like you. As long as they have enough to eat and can grease their floors with butter so that even the crumbs that fall from your table grow fat, they can't look with indifference on a man collapsing from hunger - although, of course, it must be in front of their house that he collapses.

We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.

I never doubted I would have a roof over my head, a school to go to, enough to to eat, books (and newspapers) to read, a safe neighborhood to play in and a doctor to see if I got sick.
My parents and grandparents made sure I knew I was lucky.

It appears that some school officials, teachers, and parents have assumed that religious expression of any type is either inappropriate or forbidden altogether in public schools; however, nothing in the First Amendment converts our public schools into religion-free zones.