The Good Citizen
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Today I think of the future and can't help but to worry. Global warming, racism, discrimination, famine show up on my feeds daily. The only thing giving any kind of hope are the people fighting these things to build a safer future.
One of health, tolerance, community. There are plenty of things that we should be willing to lose in the fight for a better tomorrow; it is our duty to repair the things we have broken.
When tomorrow comes and we've paid our due by pounds of flesh what remains?
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