Values such as
responsibility, integrity, commitment, and patriotism are considered old by
some. These may be old values but they are certainly not obsolete. They have
stood the test of time and will be here forever. These values have the same
meaning in New York as in New Delhi or New Zealand. They are universal. I don't
know of any time or culture in history which does not respect these values.
VALUES ARE AT AN ALL-TIME
LOW In any society, basic immorality and injustice lead to despair. The greedy and inconsiderate who seek immoral pleasures must be stopped by those committed with values. We have strayed in the process of change.
Any society that has lost its moral bearing is heading for disaster because all failures in history have been moral failures.
More than half a century ago, America was in the middle of a wrenching depression. One-third of our nation's wealth vanished in a matter of months. Manufacturing declined 77%. One-fourth of the labor force was left idle. Many cities could not afford to keep schools open. Twenty percent of New York schoolchildren were malnourished. At one point, 34 million men, women, and children were without any income at all.
Yet in the depths of that hardship, with its soup kitchens, bank closings, and hunger, Franklin Roosevelt could tell the nation in a radio address, "Our difficulties, thank God, concern only material things."*
VALUES ARE AT AN ALL-TIME
LOW In any society, basic immorality and injustice lead to despair. The greedy and inconsiderate who seek immoral pleasures must be stopped by those committed with values. We have strayed in the process of change.
Any society that has lost its moral bearing is heading for disaster because all failures in history have been moral failures.
More than half a century ago, America was in the middle of a wrenching depression. One-third of our nation's wealth vanished in a matter of months. Manufacturing declined 77%. One-fourth of the labor force was left idle. Many cities could not afford to keep schools open. Twenty percent of New York schoolchildren were malnourished. At one point, 34 million men, women, and children were without any income at all.
Yet in the depths of that hardship, with its soup kitchens, bank closings, and hunger, Franklin Roosevelt could tell the nation in a radio address, "Our difficulties, thank God, concern only material things."*
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