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Compassion

In the last presidential election in the United States of America, the winner, George
Bush had in his platform the concepts of “ compassionate conservatism”. Compassion is defined in the dictionary as a sympathetic consciousness of others’ distress together with a desire to relieve it. In simple terms it means to help a person or people out of the kindness of your heart. If compassion seized to exist in this world it would lead to the suffering of millions of people and also the destruction of our surroundings. Compassion is everywhere. Compassion is the world's richest energy source. Now that the world is a global village we need compassion more than ever, not for unselfish regard for or devotion to the welfare of others, nor for philosophy's sake or theology's sake, but for survival's sake.
In Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address on March 4, 1865, he did not offer the North the victory speech it yearned for, nor did he blame the South ...