This is stinking WOW
Adhering to this law of love
has always been the core struggle of human nature.
We are fallible.
We make mistakes,
and fall victim to the temptations of pride,
and power, and sometimes evil.
Even those of us with the best intentions
will at times fail to right the wrongs before us.
But we do not have to think that human nature is perfect
for us to still believe that the human condition can be perfected.
We do not have to live in an idealized world
to still reach for those ideals
that will make it a better place.
The non-violence practiced by men like Gandhi
and King may not have been practical
or possible in every circumstance,
but the love that they preached -
their faith in human progress -
must always be the North Star
that guides us on our journey.
For if we lose that faith -
if we dismiss it as silly or naive;
if we divorce it from the decisions
that we make on issues of war and peace -
then we lose what is best about humanity.
We lose our sense of possibility.
We lose our moral compass.
Obama in Oslo, Nobel Speech:: December 2009
