A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies. . . . A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth. With righteous indignation, it will look across the seas and see individual capitalists of the West investing huge sums of money in Asia, Africa, and South America, only to take the profits out with no concern for the social betterment of the countries, and say: “This is not just.” It will look at our alliance with the landed gentry of Latin America and say: “This is not just.” The Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just. A true revolution of values will lay hands on the world order and say of war: “This way of settling differences is not just.”

 

-Kanzo Uchimura

 

 

 

(Shibuya Hiroshi & Chiba Shin. Living for Jesus and Japan: The Social and Theological Thought of Uchimura Kanzo (p. 80). Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.. Kindle Edition)