12 13 Ece Temelkuran A PERFECT DAY TO BE BRAVE Bringing faith, dignity and joy into politics for a new social contract In every country of the old continent, Hence, too many of us immigrate to as the uncertainties of our time silence and try to build communities to scramble with the mercilessness and protect ourselves from the maddening inhumaneness of our current system, reality. [...] Yet, neither the only be acquired if the masses are faithful profit nor the unregulated market cares enough to rally for this colossal change about the vanishing sea, the burning air, and to bring down the hegemony of worn- the deteriorating dignity of humankind, out taboos. [...] They even ask for the rights of nature, the trees and the fish, the water and the birds. [...] They stare, without a blink, at the greed of the big capital and the lack of courage of the decision- makers in their attempts to lessen the damage. [...] But there are enough of us, and we are beautiful enough to prevail over the morbid symptoms and claim the day to begin the new, the humane and the just.
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