- "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. 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, Jr.
"The reality is not that I lack respect for the law; it’s that I have greater respect for justice. Where there is a conflict between the law and the higher moral code that we all share, my loyalty is to that higher moral code."
Tim DeChristopher
“This is what you shall do; love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.”
Walt Whitman
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Everyone is Entitled to Their Own Opinion… Not Their Own Facts
This is a What Racism Looks Like Today
I know the person who made that ugly statement. Worked with him for five years or more. I tolerated him saying racist and homophobic crap and said nothing, despite our having a co-worker who was gay and who I still consider a very good friend. I silently accepted his foul ideas and hateful speech about our supervisor, a good man who happens to be black. I let this hateful person say those things without challenge, and in doing so I … Continue reading
Why ALL Public Servants Should ALWAYS Be Recorded
from the excellent blog, The Agitator: An incidental recording taken while a Florida woman was on the phone with her insurance company shows that the police who arrested her and charged her with a felony for resisting arrest lied in their reports, and then again under questioning. Here is the cops’ story: The . . . ordeal began late-afternoon on Oct. 4, when Fernandes, a four-year CSPD veteran with no previous internal affairs complaints on his record, noticed Mait’s Lexus SUV … Continue reading
Ten Reasons Why the Rest of the World Thinks We’re Nuts
This article has been making the rounds this week, and to shorten it would be an injustice to the author. (Author: Soraya Chemaly) This week the Georgia State Legislature debated a bill in the House that would make it necessary for some women to carry stillborn or dying fetuses until they ‘naturally’ go into labor. In arguing for this bill Representative Terry England described his empathy for pregnant cows and pigs in the same situation. I have a question for Terry England, … Continue reading
