Throughout the world millions of thinking people, experiencing directly or through the media this world-spread insanity, are hoping and praying for an end to it. They are ready and waiting for a sign of hope, a powerful movement to replace acts and values based on greed, fear, and hate with values associated with caring. One could say that a large slice of humanity worldwide are ready and waiting ready to join a movement that offers real hope. Then there are the children and youth of the world, those now most subject to harmful indoctrination, recruitment, conscription, and exploitation of all kinds. Following the same values honored by the adult world, too many people in large cities resort to gangs, weapons, and drugs.
Youth especially look for excitement, group identity, glory, and challenge to authority.
In the Civil Rights Movement to abolish segregation in the U.S. and in the Gandhian Indian Independence Movement many young people found all these desirable features. They found that a non-violent movement could be just as exciting as participating in violence. In fact, the glory was greater, as their cause drew more universal applause. The world's youth are in urgent need of a Great Cause, one that could be the most important social movement in human history. The one movement to replace the dominance of acquiring and its related greed, fear, and hate values, will be driven not only by those challenging militarism and nationalism, but also by activists concerned for feeding the hungry, housing the homeless, educating, healing, uplifting the disadvantaged, by those deeply concerned for the wholesomeness of the environment and for the protection of wildilfe.