DARE TO DREAM

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Dare to Dream!

The success and rise to prominence of Western civilisation was fueled by liberty.

That liberty comprised a fair degree of freedom to express and exchange ideas and a system of just laws based upon the mores and customs of the people, the principle that a person is innocent until proven guilty and is entitled to a fair trial, the recognition of human rights.

Those freedoms were far from complete, often abused and did not much extend externally to peoples such as Native Americans, Native Australians and Blacks who were oppressed by those ascendant western nations.

They were incomplete inconsistent and imperfect freedoms and often little more than the idea or belief that freedoms existed. They just happened to be, warts and all, an improvement on anything else available to humanity at the time.

Yet our civilisation was energised and flowered thanks to that imperfect modicum of liberty.

This tells us that Man thrives in Liberty, even in the wan glow of promised liberty.

And as that wan light of liberty flickers and dies so the light if this civilisation winks out and the civilisation it enlivened sickens and dies.

Imagine then, if we REALLY made liberty and justice in their fullest sense available to ALL people everywhere without fear or favour, quibble, woffle, insincerity, compromise or prevarication.

Imagine if we REALLY delivered the promise and dream of Liberty and the protection of true justice.

How much would our civilisation flower where Man's spirit is freed to that degree to rise to greater heights?

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