Word: voicelessness
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...place in the bourgeois cosmos, today re-established after decades of deviation from the path of the Boston Brahmin, all of us again participating in just the “naked self-interest” Marx inveighs against in his manifesto. No one expresses more than a tinge of voiceless, ‘moral’ disgust at the flagrant, moustache-twirling greed of those attending info session after Goldman Sachs info session; these shock troops of the global market get a free pass (except of course from the aging vigilantes in the Class of 1967).Our shepherds, the professors...
...taking advice from ID on how to gain international recognition. "You should be engaging with all groups," says Ross, "not just governments sitting in offices and embassies." After a career spent deciding the fates of people who weren't even in the room, Ross gives the voiceless a chance to have their say--before they find more drastic ways to be heard...
...Rosalynn to step up The Carter Center's efforts to eradicate guinea worm disease. The image of the young woman's suffering not only personalized the illness but also forced me to view life for the first time through the eyes of the poor, the powerless and the voiceless and to come to terms with how the quality of their existence affects the world at large. I realized too that I could have done more when I was President to help people in developing countries...
...walk along the crowded, gritty streets of Dharamsala, you find as many Tibetans looking to the West for salvation as you find Westerners looking to Tibet. Melancholy signs in the Tibetan government-in-exile compound say Tibetan Torture Survivors' Program and Voice Of Tibet (Voice For The Voiceless), and many young Tibetans feel they have spent all their lives dreaming of a country they've never seen. In Tibet, meanwhile, I remember-visiting in 1990, when the shadow of martial law hung over the capital-seeing soldiers on the rooftops of the low buildings around the central Jokhang Temple...
...affected by our war, I realize how poignant that woman’s words once were. Even if an Iraqi refugee wanted to stand on a street corner and beg for money, he or she couldn’t. The situation is much more bleak, more frightening, and more voiceless. What to do when a homeless person asks you for help, is still a valid question, but what to do when a refugee does not ask you for help is an even more important question to consider...