It’s the action, not the fruit of the action, that’s important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there’ll be any fruit. But that doesn’t mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know […]
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Hope
“Hope is a verb with its shirt sleeves rolled up.” -David Orr
» Read More...Forgiveness
Forgiveness is…. the refusal to be possessive about the original wound; it is the act of letting the wound have its own life so that it can heal, mostly by re-imagining itself, and not by our telling the story again and again from the point of the one who carries […]
» Read More...Tied in a Single Garment of Destiny
We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. -Martin Luther King
» Read More...When did we start letting the conglomerates tell our stories?
For the first time in human history, most of the stories about people, life, and values are told not by parents, schools, churches, or others in the community who have something to tell, but by a group of distant conglomerates that have something to sell. -George Gerbner, media researcher
» Read More...Silence = Death
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. -Martin Luther King
» Read More...What it takes to prevail.
It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people’s minds. -Samuel Adams
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