Cowardice asks the question: Is it safe? Expediency asks the question: Is it politic? Vanity asks the question: Is it popular? But conscience asks the question: Is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular -- but he must take it simply because conscience tells him it is right.
- Martin Luther King Jr.,
from his address, "To Chart Our Course for the Future" (1968).
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Well Forest, things do get out of focus sometimes
Wasn't it you who told me;
"Love and life is like a box of chocolates...it's cheaper, but means less, if you give them away after the day has past."
Hang in There
Like I said 27 years ago on our wedding day....Hang with me for a while. I'm sure the fun is about to start anytime now!
Thursday, February 12, 2009
wisdom all the way from 1866
We are all bound up together in one great bundle of humanity, and society cannot trample on the weakest and feeblest of its members without receiving the curse in its own soul.
- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Proceedings of the Eleventh Women's Rights Convention (1866).
- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Proceedings of the Eleventh Women's Rights Convention (1866).
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Monday, February 09, 2009
Saturday, February 07, 2009
Wednesday, February 04, 2009
Women have always been smarter than chauvinists
A point of view .
Barbara Walters of Television's 20/20 did a story on gender roles in
Kabul, Afghanistan several years before the Afghan conflict. She noted
that women customarily walked five paces behind their husbands.
She recently returned to Kabul and observed that women still walk behind
their husbands. From Miss Walters' vantage point, despite the overthrow
of the oppressive Taliban regime, the women now seem to walk even
further back behind their husbands, and are happy to maintain the old
custom.
Miss Walters approached one of the Afghani women and asked, 'Why do you
now seem happy with an old custom that you once tried so desperately to
change?'
The woman looked Miss Walters straight in the eyes, and without
hesitation said, 'Land Mines.'
Barbara Walters of Television's 20/20 did a story on gender roles in
Kabul, Afghanistan several years before the Afghan conflict. She noted
that women customarily walked five paces behind their husbands.
She recently returned to Kabul and observed that women still walk behind
their husbands. From Miss Walters' vantage point, despite the overthrow
of the oppressive Taliban regime, the women now seem to walk even
further back behind their husbands, and are happy to maintain the old
custom.
Miss Walters approached one of the Afghani women and asked, 'Why do you
now seem happy with an old custom that you once tried so desperately to
change?'
The woman looked Miss Walters straight in the eyes, and without
hesitation said, 'Land Mines.'
One of the things that I hope is true.
Happy are those who consider the poor;
the Lord delivers them in the day of trouble.
The Lord protects them and keeps them alive;
they are called happy in the land.
- Psalm 41:1-2
the Lord delivers them in the day of trouble.
The Lord protects them and keeps them alive;
they are called happy in the land.
- Psalm 41:1-2
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