Our children need to be able to see us take a stand for a value and against injustices, be those values and injustices in the fami...ly room, the boardroom, the classroom, or on the city streets.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What we often take to be family values--the work ethic, honesty, clean living, marital fidelity, and individual responsibility--ar...e in fact social, religious, or cultural values. To be sure, these values are transmitted by parents to their children and are familial in that sense. They do not, however, originate within the family. It is the value of close relationships with other family members, and the importance of these bonds relative to other needs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For most of us, the word family carries very personal and emotional connotations, but it is essential that we learn to view all of... humanity as part of the earth's family. While we have no trouble cherishing our own children, we must also appreciate our broader responsibility to the world's children. Only when we learn to value other people's children as our own will all children have the opportunity to reach their full potential. And only then can we be assured of our own future and the future of our planet.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner.... I felt that I had suddenly... acquired value--to myself, to my family, and to the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the U.S. for instance, the value of a homemaker's productive work has been imputed mostly when she was maimed or killed and ins...urance companies and/or the courts had to calculate the amount to pay her family in damages. Even at that, the rates were mostly pink collar and the big number was attributed to the husband's pain and suffering.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Paganism can be defined as the elevation of a special space to ultimate value and dignity. Paganism has a god who is bound to one ...place beside and against other places. Therefore, paganism necessarily is polytheistic.... Space means more than a piece of soil. It includes everything which has the character of "beside-each-otherness." Examples of spatial concepts are blood and race, clan, tribe, and family. We know how powerful the gods are who give ultimate dignity and value to a special race and to a special community of blood. In all of them the "beside-each-otherness" is dominating. Human culture is rooted in these realities, and it is not surprising that they always have received adoration, consciously and unconsciously, by those who belong to them, and consequently that they always have claimed universal validity. Modern nationalism is the actual form in which space is ruling over time, in which polytheism is a daily reality. Nobody can deny the tremendous creativity of national community. Nobody would be willing to deprive himself of the physical and psychological space which is his nation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The value of a family is that it cushions and protects while the individual is learning ways of coping. And a supportive social sy...stem provides the same kind of cushioning for the family as a whole.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Pessimists say that the family is eroding. Optimists say the family is diversifying. Both points of view are right. Families are m...ore diverse and they are more in trouble--but not because of their diversity. The families of today--whatever their size or shape--are in crisis because our economy is failing, our national resources are shrinking, and our governmental policies to support them are inadequate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... it is only after years and years that you can speak of penury in the midst of opulence, of hunger in the midst of almost sinfu...l plenty. You must never speak of the immediate experience unless and until you have learned its consequent value. Otherwise you grow old in bitterness which is barren and futile....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »