Gentle reminder that usually what is called too radical today, like government taking over vacant buildings under eminent domain for low cost housing, is both the way of the future and moral.
This example of a US pre-revolutionary abolitionist Quaker is a perfect one. He harangued, lobbied and shamed his fellows in order to get slavery and indentured servitude destroyed. Yet he was called a radical then (and to some extent even now) for his actions. Even today, I reckon he would be called a radical by half the White population for wanting to abolish slavery completely as in prison labor.
Moral: todays progressive radical is often tomorrows moral hero. #slavery #prison #servitude #radical #freedom #hero
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