TAKE THE FREEDOM THAT IS OURS BY BIRTHRIGHT OF OUR HUMANITY

Lincoln was adamantly against "Wage Slavery". I think history bears out his concerns! 

...to freely paraphrase Rousseau... 

Humanity is born "free" but is everywhere in chains ... of "Wage Slavery" ... attached to iron balls of learned helplessness ... behind walls of transgenerational trauma! 

We are free to quit and to starve and to die ... traumatized & homeless.  That is a fool's freedom ... a victim's freedom.  That is not true freedom. That is not human freedom.

We do not earn enough to pay enough to purchase our freedom to get truly free. 

The key to freedom, though, is cooperation - NOT money!  

We do not learn enough to cooperate enough to organize enough to TAKE THE FREEDOM THAT IS OURS BY BIRTHRIGHT OF OUR HUMANITY to get truly free!

If we can cooperatively organize, together, then we can gain & create & make resources & options available to us via cooperation which will never be available to most people via the moneyist system which binds us tight, limits our growth & development, and limits our options. 

Our learned helplessness is our invisible fence. 

When you strip away all the fancy words and ideological crap and BS Revolutionary Messaging ( @RevMsg ), what DOES NOT lie ... what DOES NOT change, is POWER!

"It becomes a contest of power: those who have money and those who have people. We have nothing but people." - SAUL ALINSKY

"We must hang together or we will surely hang separately." - Benjamin Franklin

"When bad men combine [form corporations], the good must associate. [COOPERATE!]" - Edmund Burke 

"All that is required for evil to triumph, is for good people to do nothing." - Edmund Burke

"As Benjamin Franklin wrote, 'In free governments the rulers are the servants and the people their superiors and sovereigns.' The ultimate powers in a society, therefore, rest in the people themselves, and they should exercise those powers, either directly or through representatives, in every way they are competent and that is practicable." - THOMAS JEFFERSON (quoting Benjamin Franklin)

Eleanor Roosevelt UN Speech on Universal Human Rights

"Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? 

In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world.

Yet they are the world of the individual person; the neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm, or office where he works.

 Such are the places where every man, woman, and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination.

Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. 

Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world."

Eleanor Roosevelt

“In Our Hands” (1958 speech delivered on the tenth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)

First adopted in 1948, Eleanor Roosevelt called the Universal Declaration of Human Rights her greatest achievement.  

Oh, yes!  There was another Roosevelt who also did some work on human rights...

FDR’s Unfinished “Second Bill of 

Rights” – and Why We Need it Now

Excerpt from FDR's January 11, 1944 State of the Union Message to Congress  enumerating a Second Bill of Rights:

We have come to a clear realization of the fact that true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. Necessitous men are not free men. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

In our day these economic truths have become accepted as self-evident. We have accepted, so to speak, a second Bill of Rights under which a new basis of security and prosperity can be established for all – regardless of station, race, or creed. Among these are:

• The right to a useful and remunerative job in the industries or shops or farms or mines of the Nation;
• The right to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation;
• The right of every farmer to raise and sell his products at a return which will give him and his family a decent living;
• The right of every businessman, large and small, to trade in an atmosphere of freedom from unfair competition and domination by monopolies at home or abroad;
• The right of every family to a decent home;
• The right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health;
• The right to adequate protection from the economic fears of old age, sickness, accident, and unemployment;
• The right to a good education.

All of these rights spell security. And after this war is won we must be prepared to move forward, in the implementation of these rights, to new goals of human happiness and well-being.

America's own rightful place in the world depends in large part upon how fully these and similar rights have been carried into practice for our citizens. For unless there is security here at home there cannot be lasting peace in the world

Complete text available at The American Presidency Project at UC Santa Barbara.

From WIKIpedia:

Roosevelt's January 11 address was delivered via radio, due to the President's illness at the time. During the last portion dealing with the Second Bill of Rights, he asked news cameras to come in and begin filming for later broadcast. This footage was believed lost until it was uncovered in 2008 in South Carolina by Michael Moore while researching for the film Capitalism: A Love Story.

The footage shows Roosevelt's Second Bill of Rights address in its entirety, as well as a shot of the Five Rights printed on a sheet of paper.^[2]