Meditation on humanity

What is the humanity for me it is the ability to forgive the evil received using mercy and never
judge others

with the example of his tunic seems to me that Jesus invites us to use humanity, the same thing
seems to emerge from the story of Marat which are explained below

Tunic

But to you who hear I say, love your enemies, do good to them that hate you, bless those who curse
you, pray for those who mistreat you.

A person who strikes you on the cheek, offer also the other; who snatches your cloak, do not
withhold even your tunic. from 'to everyone who asks you, and from him who takes your things, do
not ask her back.

And as ye would that men should do to you, so you also do to them.If you love those who love you,
what gratitude is due? Even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do
good to you, what gratitude is due? Even sinners do the same. And if you lend to those from whom
you hope to receive, what gratitude is due? Even sinners lend to sinners, to receive as much. Let
love your enemies, do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again, and your reward will be great and
you will be sons, because he is kind to the ungrateful and the wicked.

Marat

Forced to steal to survive: Marat defends the accused

"Citizens - If the company claims the right to condemn man, it is then obliged to offer him, to grant
him an existence as a man. If its purpose is to oppose it obstacles and requires it to suffer a cruel
misery, until he violently ripping the social tie, then that man is merely taking up the rights that the
company unfairly removed him. "

"Citizen Marat" interrupted the president sternly, "you are trying to justify the theft and crimes."

"I do not condone anything. But I say that in your unjust society you missed any reason can approve
you to condemn the crime. Since the company, in the interest of its existence, in order to enforce
public order by every single member should first meet the needs of all. But what was so far the fate
of the poor?

These see in the state a class of people, who live a comfortable life and gravel, while they struggle
and suffer. One live in abundance, others lack necessities. Fatigue, dangers, hunger, contempt and
insults - this is the condition of the poor.

Yes: I cry in the face to you. It's always been the ruling class that drove the people to despair
subtracting the means of life.

The worker is not even sure to find something to do. If you can not pay heavy taxes, the even
remove the straw on which it lies.
He was reduced to begging. Irritated by the hardness of heart of the rich, not finding help anywhere,
he'd do anything when he hears his children crying from hunger.

Allow me to put myself in the place of my client and talk to you as if I were him, I'm guilty? I do
not know. But I know that I did what I had to do. Self-preservation is the first sense of the human.
You yourself do not know of a greater duty. Whoever steals for a living, when it has no other means
of life, merely exercising its natural rights.

You accuse me of violating the order and laws. That matter to me this order and these laws? To me,
that they have done nothing but harm? You using the laws always condemned many unfortunate,
you may well preach submission to the laws. You respect the laws because they provide you with a
comfortable existence. But I can recognize your laws I, who have been crushed by them? Do not
tell me that all members of society are benefited by the law, when evidence to the contrary.

Compare your to my fate. While you live in peace, in the midst of luxury and abundance, we are
exposed to the elements, slavery, starvation. To satisfy your thirst for enjoyments is not enough that
we work the soil by the sweat of our brows; we also have to water it with our tears. What have you
done to live in luxury in our shoulders? But there was at least an end to our suffering. There is none.
The fate of the poor is irrevocable. Misery is the eternal destiny of our class.

Those who ignore the advantages that wealth gives to those who have? No need for talent, merit,
virtue: just a whim. The rich belong all the privileges. In their defense, they were constructed in the
fleets. Command of the army, the administration of public money, the right to plunder the state: -
they have all the privileges.

You have to have money to accumulate money. Otherwise there is no chance to escape from
poverty.

And the kind of employment shows the difference of classes. Best occupations, such as the fine arts,
etc., Are reserved to the rich. For us, the dangerous and unhealthy jobs are left. Everywhere we are
neglected and rejected, while they helped those who do not need them.

You will say: you work. It's easy to say it. I had the opportunity to find work? Fell into poverty due
to competition from a wealthy rival, I struggled in vain to keep a roof to be hospitalized. Undone by
the disease, it was left more to live than go begging for bread. And even that I was sometimes
denied. I slept every night on the straw, wrapped in rags, and I exhibited the sad spectacle of my
misery. Not a soul took pity on me.

Driven to despair by the abandonment, deprived of everything, tormented by hunger, I took

advantage of the night to remove, by force, a passerby a little thing that he would otherwise have
denied me.

Because I made use of my natural right, you would you send me to jail. Condemn me if you believe
it necessary for the safety of your privileges. Amid agl'inenarrabili sufferings to which I was
subject, my only consolation was to curse the heavens for letting me be born among you. "

(This is a speech made by Marat in 1793 before the judges of the revolutionary court in defense of
a man who had stolen from starvation. The judges acquitted the accused)