Today I read the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. I mean, I actually sat down and read it from top to bottom. It made me feel proud and angry and sad. And outraged. In fact, it was the phrase using that word in the preamble that got me so emotional.
"Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind..."
What happened to that outrage? Where is our outrage for what is happening in Iraq or Lebanon? Do we have any left? Or is that outrage reserved for people we can relate to - for rich people who live in Western countries, who don't go to church and like to have a beer with their curry? Is that why 32 American university kids inspire more sympathy than civilians dying in Iraq in a war they didn't ask for? Or maybe it's just because they're not as pretty as Maddy McCann.
I think we need to be outraged more.
Read it.
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