inspiration from Albert Schweitzer

I got this quote from a "post-election" message sent me by FCNL.

Writing in 1958, another dangerous time, about "Peace or Atomic War?" Schweitzer may provide some advice for us today:

"We cannot continue in this paralyzing mistrust. If we want to work our way out of the desperate situation in which we find ourselves another spirit must enter into the people….The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics. We have reached the point of regarding each other only as members of a people either allied with us or against us. Now we must rediscover the fact that we – all together – are human beings, and we must strive to concede to each other what moral capacity we have. Only in this way can we begin to believe that in other peoples as well as in ourselves there will arise the need for a new spirit…."