Comments on: Leader

By: Risk Averse Alert

Risk Averse Alert — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 03:43:46 +0000

Just as occurred during the Roaring ’20s when the widening divide between the haves and have nots was similarly breeding instability, we have a strategic opportunity to return compassion and hope to an increasingly marginalized majority with proactive government policy employing the very unique capacities built into our federal constitution.

My hope is Americans will sooner rather than later realize as much has been done to weaken our nation’s full potential as has been done to strengthen it over the entire course of its history. Indeed, the battle for Independence continues to this very day. The burdensome rise in the price of necessities is only a most graphic slap in the face. The muscle behind its sting goes by the same name today as it did in the beginning: “Tyranny.”

Yet, too, we live in extraordinary times offering opportunities not every generation of Americans has been given to see. Those most pervasive agents weakening our nation’s full potential as a temple of Liberty and a beacon of Hope now find their power tied to a hopelessly bankrupt arrangement.

Thus, my dream is we would anticipate better days foremost with practical understanding of what is meant by, “Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.”

Indeed, it is our own fault when someone like Donna drops a comment at Naked Capitalism saying, “So many have nothing to fall back on. I feel for them…”

So long as one has a mind, a heart and a soul, they will have everything they ever need to fall back on. Woe is those who shudder to act with passion from within.

Consider this thought as an individual. Then consider it as a social force.

How do you think we got that Constitution in the first place? Therein lies the ground where living souls among 330 million citizens must be led to tread…

By: naomi dagen bloom

naomi dagen bloom — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:01:17 +0000

absolutely reflects what’s on my mind, in my own dreams and heart. getting from here to there still a challenge but trying the one-step. -naomi

By: gerry rosser

gerry rosser — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:58:01 +0000

Amen.

By: Quotesqueen

Quotesqueen — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:28:07 +0000

I just love the words Dick Scobie used on the occasion of his retirement from the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee: “I hope I can keep reaching for a world in which those seeking justice will find it; for a world in which children wake up to days of promise and laughter; for a world in which old people will be respected and go to bed warm and secure; for a world in which young people will find love and work and there’ll be no need for guns, or police, or prisons; for a world of dancing and music where all manner of diversity is a cause for celebration; for a world without need for the tools and cruelty of war; and where the green pastures, the air and the water are kept clean.”

May it be so.

from http://quotesqueen.wordpress.com/2008/01/04/presidential-politics/

By: Wendi

Wendi — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:15:10 +0000

Donna, that is all so beautifully expressed. Amen to every word. Thank you.

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By: justkristin

justkristin — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

My dream is close to yours but less patriotic, I guess. My dream is a world where people are thanked for what they do as an individual, or as a part of a group, but not for being part of a group as amorphous as a nationality, a race or the like.

If there is to be peace in the world,
There must be peace in the nations.
If there is to be peace in the nations,
There must be peace in the cities.
If there is to be peace in the cities,
There must be peace between neighbors.
If there is to be peace between neighbors,
There must be peace in the home.
If there is to be peace in the home,
There must be peace in the heart.

- lao-tse - 6th century bce