All people, to the extent they are able, have a corresponding duty to work, a responsibility to provide for the needs of their families, and an obligation to contribute to the broader society. Society has a moral obligation, including governmental action where necessary, to assure opportunity, meet basic human needs, and pursue justice in economic life. Workers, owners, managers, stockholders and consumers are moral agents in economic life, by our choices, initiative, creativity and investment, we enhance or diminish economic opportunity, community life, and social justice. The global economy has moral dimensions and human consequences. Decisions on investment, trade, aid and development should protect human life and promote human rights, especially for those most in need wherever they might live on this globe.
Participatory democracy entails responsibility to political, social and economic justice.
Sometimes, doing so involves taking risks and becoming uncomfortable. The organization acted on their beliefs and took the risk of ignoring what they believed to be an immoral economic blockade of Cuba. The aid will be received by an ecumenical committee of Cuban clergy who will distribute it according to the most pressing needs. Votes in favor of the Resolution have grown from 59 in 1992 to 117 in 1995. Finally, it should be pointed out that social injustice exists to some degree or another in all countries without exception and should be called wherever observed.