Category: courage
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Wait and be calm
“By waiting and by calm you shall be saved. In quiet and in trust your strength lies.” –Isaiah30:15 I found this verse in Martin Laird’s book Into the Silent Land.
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The time is now
In her autobiography The Truths We Hold, Kamala Harris quotes James Baldwin: “There is never a time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment. The time is now.”
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Tell them who you are
In her autobiography The Truths We Hold, Kamala Harris stresses that one of her mother’s favorite sayings was: “Don’t let anybody tell you who you are. You tell them who you are.”
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It’s exciting!
A Black woman is going to be president of the United States! Maybe? We hope. I am reminded of a quote from Georgia O’Keeffe. “Kick your heels in the air! Isn’t it exciting?!” O’Keeffe once said. –Joy
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A dream of peace
“We must begin with a world perspective, for we will not be able to realize the American Dream until we work to realize a world dream,” Martin Luther King Jr. once said. “A world dream of peace, and brotherhood, and goodwill.”
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A time of testing
“So far, the hopes of our Founders have never been proven fully right,” says Heather Cox Richardson, author of Democracy Awakening. “And yet they have not been proven entirely wrong. Once again, we are at a time of testing.”
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A warning about our democracy
Heather Cox Richardson, the author of Democracy Awakening, warns us: “Democracies die more often through the ballot box than at gunpoint.”
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We must fight every day
The “story of independence is not something that happens and then we just put away. It’s something that we have to fight for every single day,” Barack Obama said in 2016.
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Happy Fourth of July!
This Fourth of July, we must vow to do what we can to ensure that Democracy in our country is awake. Walt Whitman once said: “We have frequently printed the word Democracy. Yet I cannot too often repeat that it is a word the real gist of which still sleeps, quite unawaken’d.”
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Do your part
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world,” Anne Frank once said. We recently discussed a book about Anne Frank at a Girl Scout summer book club meeting. –Joy