We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people. Martin Luther King Jr. in, Letter From a Birmingham Jail.
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From CCIE this morning:
On January 27, historian, professor, lecturer, playwright, and filmmaker, Howard Zinn, passed away. In his autobiography, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train, Zinn made these remarks about being hopeful:
"To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based
on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but
also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to
emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see
only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we
remember those times and places — and there are so many — where people
have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at
least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a
different direction.
"And if we do act, in however small a
way, we don't have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future
is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think
human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is
itself a marvelous victory."
A year ago at Mining Nuggets: Round and round and round
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