A Matter of Principle

Sometimes my investigations lead to dead ends.There I was,tired,tuckered out and worn.Today, the search for Principles is no joke!
I went to the courthouse,searching for justice and she was on vacation.Today, City Halls,State Capitols, the US Congress and even Wall street are short on banking Principles.Outright thievery from Credit Default Swap escapades yielded guaranteed
swindling of taxpayer lifetime investments in pensions,fair play,education,jobs,hope and health & welfare security. The brilliant and compassionate solutions for greedy behavior
was for well- to- do public officials to further swindle the poor, aged,minority and non-politically connected masses through austerity budget- cutting, that erodes the Principles of democracy.

I did get a fair description of Principles before I went looking for them.At www.thefreedictionary.com site, a Principle is described as,"1. a basic truth, law, or assumption: the principles of democracy.
2.
a. A rule or standard, especially of good behavior: a man of principle.
b. The collectivity of moral or ethical standards or judgments.
I also found a blueprint of a national memorial dedicated to the principles of
justice,peace,hope and love at The Washington,D.C. Martin Luther King,Jr. National Memorial.Several Principles were highlighted from the writings of Martin Luther King,Jr.

For example, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967.
"Being a Negro in America means trying to smile when you want to cry. It means trying to hold on to physical life amid
psychological death. It means the pain of watching your children grow up with clouds of inferiority in their mental skies. It means
having your legs cut off, and then being condemned for being a cripple. It means seeing your mother and father spiritually
murdered by the slings and arrows of daily exploitation, and then being hated for being an orphan."

I also found quotations from , Why We Can't Wait, 1963.


"The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the dawn of
civilization, when men ate each other because they had not yet learned to take food from the soil or to consume the abundant
animal life around them. The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty."

I also found one anecdotal quote,

"Everything that is done in the world is done by hope."
Martin Luther King,Jr.