Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.
Archive for January, 2009
Hope
Posted in Uncategorized on January 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Challenging Words
Posted in Uncategorized on January 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
You can be the generation that makes this country energy independent; you can be the generation that wipes out malaria in the developing world; you can be the generation that summons global resources to halt genocide in Darfur and beyond; you can be the generation that deals with the scourge of [...]
War and Peace
Posted in Uncategorized on January 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In talking with a friend tonight he made the comment that Martin Luther King, Jr. is much too domesticated in our modern world. I couldn’t agree more.
A genuine leader is not a sycophant of consensus but he is a molder of consensus. On some positions, cowardice asks the question is it safe, expediency asks the question is [...]
Indifference
Posted in Uncategorized on January 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place [...]
Thoughts
Posted in Uncategorized on January 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. I felt in myself a superabundance of energy which found no outlet in our quiet life.” (Leo Tolstoy in Family Happiness)
No man has ever followed his genius until it misled him…All [...]
