All media hints thanks to Ron Dunn, but for the following, my only contribution...
<This has been stated in several ways for over 100 years by various individuals, including (but not limited to) Churchill, Pope John Paul II, Dostoyevsky, Truman, etc.
Very recently by Cardinal Roger Mahony (1998):
"Any society, any nation, is judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members ; the last, the least, the littlest."
And perhaps most dubiously attributed to Ghandi
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. "
The original author of this quotation seems to have been lost.>
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Who_said_A_society_is_measured_by_how_it_treats_its_weakest_members
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"You can never step in the same river twice."
~Herman Hesse, "Siddhartha"
"Sucked into quicksand, brown and red liquid solid
Sucked into throats, no air to breathe, killing off millions
Sucked into apathy, what excuses are there?
Sucked into silence; no words come close to adequacy.
This is the world we are making for ourselves and
Dragging along those who have no voice,
Before... and certainly after.
Death"
~moi
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This first one is a difficult to watch ~ so much destruction of animal life, and illness beginning for humans as well. The Gulf of Mexico is, by itself, the eleventh largest body of water on the planet. Devastating. Unthinkable. Unnecessary.
Music: Blind Faith - Had to Cry Today
manton2y — January 19, 2009 — Blind Faith first live performance in Hyde Park, London, 9 th june 1969
stupidDOPEMedia — May 19, 2010 — Mos Def, Lenny Kravitz, the Preservation Hall Band, Trombone Shorty, and Tim Robbins teamed up recently to record It Ain't My Fault to benefit Gulf Aid, a nonprofit created in response to the oil spill off the Louisiana Coast. Check out the video above and if you're interested in donating to the cause, please visit http://GulfAid.org