The Right to Hope in the Face of Despair

Abstract

Paul Tillich asked us “What gives us the right to hope after all our failures ?” The key to solve this problem, if any, lies in our readiness to admit our own social injustice toward each other, especially to homeless people. The homelessness has been spreading in whole area, that is, both younger people and older people have been losing their tenured positions in society in these years. Participating in the struggle against despair for the right to hope, lawyers shall be sensitive in the exercise of their conscience, which has no easy right answer.