How can we respect and defend everyone's life? How can we persuade others to do the same? These are the critical questions that I speak and write about. I believe that:
- Human life is a great good, one we should all cherish and defend.
- The right to life underlies and sustains all other rights. Without life, there are no other rights, nor any chance for the pursuit of happiness.
- We must defend life at all levels: cultural, educational, political and personal. As the Quakers say,
"Let your life speak."
- We need serious analysis of the threats to life and of the "power elite" from which they so often come.
- We need coalitions that transcend political divisions in order to advance the cause of life.
- We should stress positive alternatives to violence -- and work to recapture a sense of the joy of life.
