I Heart Revolution [excerpt from film]

"It's not hard to see that there's this great inbalance and that things aren't right. You know, I know that, but for me I suppose it really hits home if I stop and think about this moment. Because it's happening right now. In the same moment, you have a generation who are sitting around, entertaining themselves, watching reality television--which to be honest, is anything but real. While you have a child who is being prostituted being closed doors and robbed of their innocence. It's not fair that we can go about consuming every single material option that comes our way while the widow, the orphan are stripped of life's basic dignities because they're victims of a conflict that simply isn't theirs. It's not fair that there is a generation who are choking on their obesity, while at the same time there are 30,000 children who will die today for lack of food. It's not fair that we have no problem spending three or four dollars on what is basically glorified tap water in a bottle with a fancy label, while we have entire communities that suffer at the hands of disease because the only water that they have access to is foul and polluted. It's not fair that we can sing and dance and jump around in our freedom and in our liberty, while at the same time the slave remains captive, out of sight and out of mind. It's not fair that we can sit and watch the evening news from the comfort of our living rooms, and pity those who live where the storm hit or where the ground shook or where the water rose, and simply feel sorry for them and then change the channel, and get on with supper. Is it fair to walk past the homeless man and give him nothing in the assumption that he'll spend it on booze or cigarettes? Or to suggest that he should go out and get a job? Who are we to judge the alcoholic or the prostitute or the addict or the criminal, as if we are any better? Who are we to forget the downtrodden or the oppressed or the marginalized, while we go about chasing the dream? We see this inbalance and say 'that's not right' or 'that's not fair' but all too often that's all we do. Because for us to do anything more is actually going to cost us something. And if that's where it ends, perhaps then it's fair to say that that when we ignore the prostituted child, that we actually lend our hand to their abuse. That when we ignore the widow and the orphan in their distress, that we actually add to their pain. When we ignore the slave who remains captive, then it's us who's entrapping them. That when we forget the refugee, then it's us who's displacing them. That when we choose not to help the poor and the needy, that we actually rob them. Perhaps the only fair thing to say is that when we forsake the lives of others, we actually forsake our own."