The best development is human development.

The best birth control is love and responsibility to the first born child.

The best kind of progress is the natural evolution of the earth.

Learning peace without violence is better than enforcing peace through the threat of violence.

We are not born with human rights. We must learn them.

Human rights entail human responsibilities.

The only true equality is universal human equality.

The only true Democracy is one where everyone votes.

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We travel down our path

Heedless of the signs

Failing to heed the way

Meant by our grand design

Learning how to forget

Until it is too late

Which way to take

Time flies away

As darkness descends

Our energies are nearly exhausted

And nature sings to us

Singing in the wind

Whispering through the leaves

Leave it alone, alone, alone

Live in it

Alone, alone, alone

Carried to the edge of darkness

By leaders no longer to be trusted

Standing upon the precipice

Of our own brief history

And the wind howls and screams

Threatening to push us into the chasm

There is an emergency

Beyond the power

Of any bureaucracy

It has become our time

To raise six billion and one voices

In a chorus to the earth

In a crying for its dying

In a wailing for its wake

In a celebration of its passing

And rebirth

No more bombs

No more bullits

No more booms

No more tombs

Of billions of babies

No more hungry mouths to feed

No more big brothers

Or smiling uncles

Or irresponsible fathers

Posted on the walls

The earth has always been

And will forever be

Our only home

Our only reference point

Our only bottom line

Our only ground

Our only guide

Our only way

1994-5

Blanket Copyright, Hugh M. Lewis, © 2005. Use of this text governed by fair use policy--permission to make copies of this text is granted for purposes of research and non-profit instruction only.

Last Updated: 03/15/05