People inflict pain on others in their selfish pursuit of happiness and satisfaction. Yet true happiness comes from a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood. We need to cultivate a sense of universal responsibility for one another and the planet we share.
Economic convulsions; fear of immigrants with new “religious affiliations and alien languages;” a rising KKK; a “deep cultural divide between rural and urban;” fear that “the world was becoming unsafe for democracy” - Robert Dallek, in new FDR bio, on America in 1933.