"It is essential that the new government will express a clear commitment on paper, in writing".
At a time when black people were not legally guaranteed basic human rights in the United States, Martin Luther King Jr. had the audacity to demand that America be true to its commitments on paper, as was written in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
But we must do more to turn commitments on paper into deeds that can keep the next major disaster from taking so many lives and destroying so many livelihoods.
"If buyers are being sought, there must be guarantees on staffing levels and a commitment to the paper's editorial independence," says its general secretary, Michelle Stanistreet.
Putting those commitments down on paper will help deter provocations, they said.
In addition to such concerns about the ability of public bodies to uphold and guarantee commitments made on paper, there are still loopholes allowing the determined to teach creationism.
