From the Golden Rule to The Freedom Rides: Reflecting on Peace and Justice Ethics-Talk: The Greatest Good of Man is Daily to Converse About Virtue

This show continues our discussion on 8/27, which focused on the role of visual objects in the Peace through Law movement. Discussing both the peace flag (created in 1897) and the Peace Palace, which opened in 1913, we noted how both play important roles in the "education piece" of the Peace through Law movement. These symbols not only provide a way of "entering the forest" of the history of this movement, but also help the individual to organize his or her "inner world" so that one acts in accordance with an "inner law" known as Golden Rule. We continue this discussion and connect it to the issue of “Justice.” What is the relationship between peace and justice? August 28, we noted, is both the anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech, and the opening of the Peace Palace. We thus devote this show to exploring the connections amongst the Peace through Law Movement, the Golden Rule, the nature of Justice and the non-violent wing of the Civil Rights Movement, noting that this is the first year that we have passed through August 28, without Congressman John Lewis, a fierce practitioner of the philosophy of non-violence and the last survivor of the original "big 6" behind the March on Washington on August 28, 1963