The Resolute Woman

Category: courage

  • Only the truth

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    President Biden visited Tulsa recently on the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa race riot. “Some injustices are so heinous, so horrific, so grievous, they cannot be buried, no matter how hard people try,” he said. “Only with truth can come healing….We can’t just choose what we want to know…. I come here to help fill…

  • Be brave

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    Rebekah Taussig wonders how to teach her son to be true to himself. In the May 24/May 31 issue of Time magazine, she writes, “How do I teach him to be brave? To hold on to himself when the opinions of others are loud and everywhere.”

  • 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.

  • 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.”

  • Be yourself

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    One of my favorite quotes—which I found on a bumper sticker—is: “Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.” I just found another, similar quote that I like. I have edited it, changing all of the “his” words to “her.” “It is the fate of every human being to be a unique individual, to find her…

  • 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.

  • Speak up!

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    I found a great Martin Luther King quote somewhere this week. It’s a quote I’ve heard before, but it’s one that’s worth repeating. “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends,” Martin Luther King once said. –Joy

  • Listening and validation

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    In Sue Monk Kidd’s book The Invention of Wings about the Grimke sisters, early advocates of women’s rights and abolition, Sarah Grimke asks Lucretia Mott, “Do you think I could become a Quaker minister?” Lucretia responds, “Sarah Grimke, you’re the most intelligent person I know. Of course, you could.” In an interview, Sue Monk Kidd…

  • I ask no favors

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    “I ask no favors for my sex,” wrote Sarah Grimke, who was born in 1792. “All I ask of our brethren is that, they will take their feet from off our necks and permit us to stand upright on that ground which God designed us to occupy.” I am reading about Sarah Grimke, an early…