Last night I lost my grip on reality & welcomed in insanity.
Love saw me and said,I showed up.
Wipe your tears and be silent.
I said, O Love I am frightened, but it’s not you.
Love said to me, there is nothing that is not me, be silent. Rumi
ROBERT KENNEDY 1925-1968 ATTORNEY GENERAL-ASSASINATED WHEN RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT.
THE PURPOSE OF LIFE is to contribute in some way to making things better.
WHAT WE NEED IN THE UNITED STATES is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence or lawlessness; but love and wisdom and compassion toward one another and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country whether they be white or they be black.
IT IS from the numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
WHEN YOU TEACH A MAN TO HATE AND FEAR HIS BROTHER, WHEN YOU TEACH THAT HE IS A LESSER MAN BECAUSE OF HIS COLOR OR HIS BELIEFS OR THE POLICIES HE PURSUES, when you teach that those who differ from you threaten your freedom or your job or your family, then you also learn to confront others not as fellow citizens but as enemies . . .
THERE are people in every time who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present and invoke the security of the comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.
EVERY TIME you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
FEW MEN are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change the world which yields most painfully to change.
WHAT is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists is not that they are extreme but they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause but what they say about their opponents.
BUT history will judge you and the years pass, you will ultimately judge yourself in the extent to which you have used your gifts and talents to lighten and enrich the lives of your fellow men. In your hands lies the future of your world and the fufillment of the best qualities of your own spirit.
THERE are those who look at things the way they are and ask why . . . I dream of things that never were and ask why not?
FEAR NOT THE PATH OF TRUTH FOR THE LACK OF PEOPLE WALKING ON IT.
A LIFE WITHOUT CRITICISM IS NOT WORTH LIVING.
IT IS THE ESSENCE of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.
I THINK there is an obligation on the part of all of us to stay informed and aware.