This Troubled World
Start Publishing LLC · Print & ebook · February 28, 2023
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- Who it’s for
- Eleanor Roosevelt urges brotherly love as a way of living amid suspicion and hatred.
- Themes
- Brotherly love, Peaceful future, Suspicion and hatred
- Genres
- Peace & Conflict, Political Writing, Human Rights
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The newspapers these days are becoming more and more painful. I was reading my morning papers on the train not so long ago, and looked up with a feeling of desperation. Up and down the car people were reading, yet no one seemed excited. To me the whole situation seems intolerable. We face today a world filled with suspicion and hatred.
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Some time we must begin, for where there is no beginning there is no end, and if we hope to see the preservation of our civilization, if we believe that there is anything worthy of perpetuation in what we have built thus far, then our people must turn to brotherly love, not as a doctrine but as a way of living. If this becomes our accepted way of life, this life may be so well worth living that we will look into the future with a desire to perpetuate a peaceful world for our children.
Brotherly Love
Eleanor Roosevelt urges brotherly love as a way of living amid suspicion and hatred.
Come here for
- A call to replace suspicion and hatred with brotherly love
- A vision of a peaceful world for children
Expect
- Reflections on preserving civilization
- An appeal to begin building a peaceful future
Where it sits
| Peace & Conflict | 53% |
|---|---|
| Human Rights | 38% |
| Political Writing | 38% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Time-Travel Romance
- Time Travel Fiction
- Political Fiction
- Authors
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Publisher
- Start Publishing LLC
- Published
- February 28, 2023
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Brotherly love · Peaceful future · Suspicion and hatred
- Reading lane
- Time-Travel Romance