This reading is a Platform Address that Joe Chuman gave at the Ethical Culture Society of Bergen County (NJ) in 2005. Ethical Culture and the Ongoing Quest for Social Justice is available on the webiste of the Bergen Society.

Dr. Joseph Chuman has been the Leader of the Ethical Culture Society of Bergen County, NJ since 1974. He is also part of the team of Leaders at the New York Society for Ethical Culture.

Dr. Chuman frequently lectures to public audiences on a broad range of social and philosophical issues.

As an activist, Dr. Chuman has worked on behalf of human rights, civil liberties and in opposition to the death penalty, as well as many other progressive causes.  He has recently initiated a sanctuary program for asylum seekers detained at the Elizabeth Detention Center in Elizabeth, NJ.