The Resolute Woman

Category: change

  • Power and change

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    “Power concedes nothing without a demand,” Frederick Douglass once said. “It never did and it never will.” I just finished David Blight’s long book Frederick Douglass—Prophet of Freedom about a remarkable man who lived his first 20 years as a slave and then became a leader in the abolitionist movement, orator, writer and statesman. –Joy

  • Struggle and progress

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    “If there is no struggle, there is no progress,” Frederick Douglass once said. I just finished David Blight’s long book Frederick Douglass—Prophet of Freedom about a remarkable man who lived his first 20 years as a slave and then became a leader in the abolitionist movement, orator, writer and statesman. –Joy

  • You must do something

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    John Lewis encouraged us to make “good trouble.” It’s good advice to remember this Memorial Day weekend, which also marks the 100th year since the Tulsa race riot. “You must do something. Democracy is not a state. It is an act, and each generation must do its part,” Lewis said.

  • Don’t whinge

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    I just learned a new word. The word is “whinge.” If you whinge, you complain about unimportant things all the time. I’m am going to try to avoid being a whinger! –Joy

  • Expect a surprise

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    “Each day holds a surprise,” the priest and writer Henri Nouwen once said. “But, only if we expect it can we see, hear or feel it when it comes to us. “Let’s not be afraid to receive each day’s surprise, whether it comes to us as sorrow or as joy. It will open a new…

  • Everything will be okay

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    This is an interesting quote to think about!? John Lennon once said, “Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.”

  • Empower someone

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    I recently heard Joan Chittister, the nun and author, talk about power in a video presentation. She talked about exploitative power, competitive power and manipulative power. But, she urged her audience to use their power to empower other people. Empowering other people, she stressed, is the best use of power. –Joy

  • Talk to your enemies

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    The Week magazine is celebrating 20 years of publishing with “a sampling of timeless observations” from its Wit & Wisdom column—and the quotes are marvelous. Here’s one. “If you want peace, don’t talk to your friends. Talk to your enemies,” Desmon Tutu once said—and was quoted first by the HuffingtonPost.com.

  • Simple or complex?

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    The Week magazine is celebrating 20 years of publishing with “a sampling of timeless observations” from its Wit & Wisdom column—and the quotes are marvelous. Here’s one. “If things were simple, word would have gotten around.” Those words came from philosopher Jacques Derrida—and originally appeared in TheBrowser.com.

  • Make a difference

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    “We are here to make a difference, a day at a time, an act at a time, for as long as it takes to make the world a place of justice and compassion,” Rabbi Jonathan Sacks once said.