The beautiful graphic was produced by Steven Anderson who is leading the 'Voices' strand of NothingAboutUs.
Full text for Human Megaphone is here:
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Steinbeck
Results, not causes;// results, not causes.// The causes lie deep and
simple//—the causes are a hunger in a stomach, multiplied a million times;// a
hunger in a single soul,// hunger for joy and some security, multiplied a
million times//; muscles and mind aching to grow, to work, to create, //multiplied
a million times. //The last clear definite function of man//—muscles aching to
work, //minds aching to create beyond the single need//—this is man.
To build a wall, to build a house, a
dam//, and in the wall and house and dam to put something of Manself,// and to
Manself take back something of the wall, the house, the dam//; to take hard
muscles from the lifting,// to take the clear lines and form from conceiving.//
For man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows
beyond his work,// walks up the stairs of his concepts,// emerges ahead of his
accomplishments.
This you may say of man//—when
theories change and crash//, when schools, philosophies, when narrow dark
alleys of thought//, national, religious, economic, grow and disintegrate,//
man reaches, stumbles forward, painfully, mistakenly sometimes.// Having
stepped forward, he may slip back, but only half a step, never the full step
back.// This you may say and know it and know it.
And fear the time when the strikes
stop while the great owners live//—for every little beaten strike is proof that
the step is being taken.// And this you can know—fear the time when Manself
will not suffer and die for a concept,// for this one quality is the foundation
of Manself,// and this one quality is man, distinctive in the universe.
Reid
Reject
the insidious pressures in society// that would blunt your critical faculties
to all that is happening around you,// that would caution silence in the face
of injustice// lest you jeopardise your chances of promotion and
self-advancement.
The
challenge we face is that of rooting out anything and everything that distorts
and devalues human relations
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