¶ World-around Communication Transcends Politics (2)
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"Now, for the first time in history, all of humanity is
literate and all of humanity knows everybody else. For the
first time in the history of humanity we have the capability
of safely implementing direct democratic expression.
"I meet very large numbers of audiences-- this last year an
average of 1,500 people on 150 occasions. The majority of my
audiences are young. I established a self-discipline a half
century ago whereby I was never to ask anybody to listen to me.
I was to talk to others only when I was asked to do so-- and
then I must give them my best. More and more people everywhere
ask me to come talk to them. I am telling them about our
‘final exam’ and that I feel that whether humanity can ‘pass’
is to be answered entirely within the mind of the individual.
Do we really have the integrity? Do we really understand that
each of us is only here for all the others? If the answer is,
‘I am here for me,’ then I think humanity is going to fail its
exam.
"I think that extraordinary individual courage-- which dares
to listen to its own cognition of the truth-- is going to have"
¶ Citations
- RBF in committee transcript, US Senate, 15 May’75
