A Writer’s Constitution: The Right To Write, The Responsibilities Of Writers, And What It All Means
For thousands of years, humans have used living documents to unite in the cause of progress. Writers have written these documents down; now it’s time to create our own.
As the pen is mightier than the sword, and as language is the power behind nations, ideologies, religions, cultures, and human endeavors, it falls to writers to wield their power morally and with respect.
This declaration is intended to unify the collective conscience of writers everywhere; to acknowledge their duties; to declare their rights; and to establish for all a future in which the written word remains sacred, dignified, and resolute.
Those writers who are dedicated to the causes of progress, prosperity, goodwill, and all of the values that guide the moral spirit are by their skill and talents endowed with certain unalienable duties — and by the gift of language bestowed upon them are possessed of certain undeniable rights.
We, as writers, are subjects of the human race, and it is incumbent upon all of us to acknowledge the flaws, biases, and lived realities that are included therein.
