Let us be up and doing, so that we can encourage others to get the most out of their lives, too. We are the decent people of the world. We are in the majority, for men and women are essentially decent. We live in all nations, we live under all the flags that fly. Decency is not determined by our economic status, our religion, the language we speak, the color of our skin, or the ideology under which we live.
Human decency is a universal quality.
We, the decent people of the world, often have our voices drowned out by the shouts of leaders who misrepresent the things for which we stand. We the decent people carry enough weight to tip the scale for decency if we will make ourselves heard. . . . We believe that war is the great indecency, that it kills and destroys all the higher sensibilities of man and leaves only death, suffering, and destruction in its wake. We believe that there is only one war to be waged in the name of human decency, and that is the war against all the common enemies of man . . . We believe that every child should have the chance to grow up in an atmosphere of faith, not of fear.