We are far more concerned about the desecration of the flag than we are about the desecration of our land.

Love changes, and in change is true.

A proper community, we should remember also, is a commonwealth: a place, a resource, an economy. It answers the needs, practical as well as social and spiritual, of its members - among them the need to need one another. The answer to the present alignment of political power with wealth is the restoration of the identity of community and economy. (pg. 63, "Racism and the Economy")

Because by definition they lack any sense of mutuality or wholeness, our specializations subsist on conflict with one another. The rule is never to cooperate, but rather to follow one's own interest as far as possible. Checks and balances are all applied externally, by opposition, never by self-restraint. Labor, management, the military, the government, etc., never forbear until their excesses arouse enough opposition to force them to do so.

It's the impeded stream that sings

The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either.

You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.