• For me, social progress is finding, creating a place we can call home, somewhere where everything without purpose doesn’t matter, where we can just live our lives absent of the injustice of it all. And not just as one person trying to make a difference, but as a community of black and white, of woman and man, of brothers and sisters, of sons and daughters of all our ancestors since the beginning of time.

    It’s been 224 years since the Founding Fathers have created this country, but this whole series of mistakes and corrections is not just about the United States. It’s about Egypt and Greece and Libya and Iran and every other country out there facing their demons. They have fought through things America has never dreamed of fighting, with beasts larger than our ideas and with swords weaker than our innocence. These places, full of people just like us, have overthrown military rule, stopped economic disasters, and survived a terrorist mastermind, among numerous other things.

    What have we, America, the country of freedom and prosperity, what have we done for our world? Sure, we throw money at programs and charities and leave them to do the dirty work, but that’s not good enough. We need to do something. Anything. To stop the pain and death and objectifying, to stop the people with hearts as cold as a cloudless winter night from taking our lives away like they mean nothing. Keep in mind there is more than one way to lose a life, through your soul leaving your body or your rights and personality being ripped from your own reality.

    Because, we, the people, have standards for our environments. We, the people, care about each other’s quality of life. We, the people, have expectations for the corruptions of persons that run our world.

    Us America fought in bloody battles ourselves, but over money and drugs and god and publicity. But none of these pointless things are us. Have we forgotten why we live, why we breathe, why we fight at all? Have we forgotten our humanity, our souls, our hearts? You know what we live for, you know who we are, and you know why I’m telling you this. You know. So use this knowing and start acting, start saying, start believing.

    We live for each other, ourselves, our children. We fight for the promise of tomorrow and the flight of the past and the rush of the present. That is why we live, that is why we exist. For no reason at all except each other.

    But that doesn’t change anything. We injure the people around us, we sell their souls, we destroy their sanity. We don’t care. And that’s perhaps the worst crime of all.

    And I don’t know about all of you, but this is what I think. We quit whining and insulting and throwing punches. We just give up this whole idea of you having to be better than everyone, or that you have to be worse. You shouldn’t fight back to people who have only left you alone, and if you honestly need attention as much as to bully then perhaps people wronging you is not the problem.

    America got one thing right: that everyone should be equal. But not only in the eyes of god or law, but every human on this planet should view each other with no thought of comparison or jealousy. You are better than everyone, and everyone is better than you, for that is how the universe has formed us, and that is how the universe has formed.

    As well as equality, I think this world deserves something more. Something along the lines of ending the circles that we are just dying to run in, something along the lines of fighting for freedom and hope, not for greed or prejudice. Something along the lines of simply letting go of everything unhappy and looking from the rough of the path below to the shine of the stars above.

    With the fountains of hate, the labels, the bloodshed, the hurt, why do we bother with these things that make no sense, the things that hold us back behind bars of will as strong as steel and walls thicker than their speeches of lies?

    Why? Because in this cell there is a window, and clouded by our steel bars of will it is. But all that matters it that this window is here, bathing us with light and another chance. It is a window of hope, where maybe we could be small enough, starved enough, that our future generations could slip through and claim the world beyond, make it their own and treat it so this imprisonment won’t reoccur.

    So let’s break out of our chains of despair, and save each other and ourselves from the pain. Let’s smash the walls in; let’s break the bars. Let’s climb out the window, and reach towards the sun and forever reach at the impossible that seems quite possible indeed.

    Let us revise this world and use it’s potential to make an earth worth staying for. Now, let’s do it now. Let’s be ourselves and no one else, let’s smile and live and stop the war and disrespect.

    Let’s create true freedom.