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Thought For the Day: Power Concedes Nothing Without A Demand. It Never Did and Never Will.
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon … Continue reading
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Tagged Concede, Demand, Find Out, Frederick Douglass, Impose, Injustice, Nothing, People, Power, Quietly Submit, Thought For the Day, Wrong
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Courage To Speak Honestly
Courage To Speak Honestlyby Michael DoyleLost in life’s waves as they come and goWhether trough or crest there is much to knowWe must never be afraid to speak honestlyRailing against injustice and acting efficientlyAs much as we can to rid … Continue reading
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Tagged Act, Afraid, Belong, Benevolence, Blindness, Choice, Confidence, Confound, Conviction, Courage, Crest, Efficient, Evidence, Family, Giving, Honestly, Injustice, Kindness, Lies and Greed, Living, Love, Poetry and Poems, Profound, Rail, Recall, Relevance, Rid, Speak, Strong, Trough, Unbreakable, Unspeakable, Voice, Wave, World
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First Principles: If Everyone Were Clothed With Integrity, If Every Heart Were Just, Frank, Kindly, the Other Virtues Would Be Well-Nigh Useless
“If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless, since their chief purpose is to make us bear with patience the injustice of our fellows.” – Molière (1622-1673)
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Tagged Bear, Chief Purpose, Clothed, Every Heart, Everyone, Fellows, First Principles, Frank, Injustice, Integrity, Just, Kindly, Moliere, Other Virtues, Patience, Useless
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Thought For the Day: The Limits of Tyrants Are Prescribed By the Endurance of Those Whom They Suppress
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and … Continue reading
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Tagged Blows, Concede, Demand, Endurance, Frederick Douglass, Impose, Injustice, Limits, People, Power, Resist, Submit, Suppress, Thought For the Day, Tyrants, Words, Wrong
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Thought For the Day: Since When Do We Have To Agree With People To Defend Them From Injustice?
“Since when do we have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?” – Lillian Hellman, playwright (20 Jun 1905-1984)
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Tagged Agree, Defend, Injustice, Lilian Hellman, People, Since, Thought For the Day
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For Harry Belafonte (RIP: 3/1/27 – 4/25/23)
For Harry Belafonte (RIP: 3/1/27 – 4/25/23)by Michael DoyleUsing song as a tool for transformationHis soundtrack helped to change the nationNow Belafonte has died at the age of ninety-sixHis life having affirmed the need of too much to fixSo many, … Continue reading
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Tagged Affirm, Affirmation, Ballad, Banality, Banana Boat, Better World, Birth, Black Man, Brutality, Bucket, Carribean, Change, Claypso Beat, Colors, Confirmation, Fix, Freedom, Front, Harry Belafonte, Hesitation, Hint, How Low, Inclusive, Injustice, Island, Joy, Joyful Mix, Jump In the Line, Liberty Bell, Life, Limbo, Linger, Melody, Mississippi Goddamn, Musical Life, Nation, Ninety-Six, Paradise, Poetry and Poems, Popstarr, Price, Question, Ransom, Recalled, Representation, Revolutionary, Rhymes, Ride, Risk, Song, Sountrack, Stride, Tangle, Tool, Transformation, Vision, Whole, Window, Winds, Work Songs, Wrongs
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First Principles: If We Suffer Their Minds To Grovel and Creep In Infancy, They Will Grovel All Their Lives
“It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and … Continue reading
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Tagged Amition, Capacity, Care, Children, Contempt of Meanness, Courage, Excel, Faculty, First Principles, Govel, Industry, Infancy, Inhumanity, Injustice, John Adams, Lives, Minds, Virtue
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Thought For the Day: There May Be Times When We Are Powerless to Prevent Injustice, but There Must Never Be A Time When We Fail To Protest
“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.” – Elie Wiesel, writer, Nobel laureate (30 Sep 1928-2016)
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Tagged Elie Wiesel, Fail, Injustice, Powerless, Protest, Thought For the Day, Time, Times
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Thought For the Day: The Objector and the Rebel Who Raises His Voice Against What He Believes To Be the Injustice of the Present and the Wrongs of the Past Is the One Who Hunches the World Along
“The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along.” – Clarence Darrow, lawyer and author … Continue reading
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Tagged Believe, Clarence Darrow, Hunch, Injustice, Objector, Past, Present, Raise, Rebel, Thought For the Day, Voice, World, Wrongs
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