Corruption robs our children of their protection, nutrition and education.
Corruption destroys our families and communities.
Corruption steals from our farmers and workers.
Corruption deters businessmen from investing in our economy.
This has eroded our spirit as individuals, as communities, as a people.
We have lost trust in the democratic institutions we so courageously re-established after the dictatorship.
Our proven capacity for collective outrage and righteous resistance has been weakened.
We have ceased to depend on the patriotism and civic engagement that used to animate many of our efforts.
We have become divided and alienated, focusing only on ourselves and on our individual pursuits.
Our moral faculties as a people have been paralyzed.
We have retreated into a dark world of self-absorption and cynicism. Our collective despair has reached its lowest point.