If you translate the Western term “rights” into many Asian languages, it comes out meaning “responsibilities.” This becomes obvious when we contrast our different responses to the pandemic.
Now that Republicans have lost control of the U.S. Senate, no longer occupy the White House, have lost some 60 court challenges to the election and have removed the last confederate flag from the Capitol, they’re saying that all they really want is for everyone to get along.
While the federal government tries to get ramped up with both the supply and distribution of the coronavirus vaccines, an equally troubling problem is how many people will resist taking the vaccine.
A president and an administration that has created a tsunami of lies over the past four years apparently saw no problem in adding one more on its way out the door.
Cowardice asks the question, ‘Is it safe?’ Expediency asks the question, ‘Is it politic?’ Vanity asks the question, ‘Is it popular?’ But conscience asks the question, ‘Is it right?’ And there are times when you must take a stand that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but you must do it because it is right. - Martin Luther King
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