if everyone cared...

Have you ever heard the song If Everyone Cared by Nickelback? ....Here are some examples of the good things that can happen when people get together and care......In 1984, Bob Geldof cared enough about the African famine epidemic to organise Live Aid, a concert watched by 1.56 billion people and raising 150 million pounds. In 1976, Irish mother Betty Williams organised a peaceful protest after witnessing three children killed during the political turmoil in N Ireland - the first week 10,000 people marched to the children's graves and and the following week, 35,000 people marched.....Betty, an ordinary housewife, received the Nobel Peace Prize for her work......In 1961 a British man,Peter Benenson, angered by the imprisonnent of two student who drank a toast to freedom and were imprisoned for seven years because of it, began a local campaign which grew into the worldwide Amnesty International. Nelson Mandela, imprisoned for life for 'political treason' was released after 27 yrs in 1990 and led the first democratic election where 19 million queued to vote,ending 46 years of apartheid in South Africa, Quote from Margaret Mead, famous anthropologist,...''Never doubt that a small group of committed people can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has''....Food for thought, isnt it...''if everyone cared and nobody lied, we'd see the day when nobody died..'' amen, brother!