Flickr Photos
Tag Archives: Justice
Swing Around the Circle
Civil War ends and an attempt at racial justice was attempted. How did things get so completely flawed? Swing Around the Circle by Michael Doyle A country brought to ruin sought salvation From a barren wasteland in need of transformation … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged 15th Amendment, America, Andrew Johnson, Anguish, Assassination, Black America, Bloody Shirt, Bureau of Reconstruction, Carpetbagger, Citizen, Civil Rights, Civil War, Congress, Contentment, Corruption, Country, Derringer, Destruction, Elite, Eloquence, Executive Power, Forty Acres and A Mule, Freedmen, Freedmen's Bureau, Freedom, Golden Spike, Hayes, History, Idealism, Impeachment, Inclination, Incorporation, Inequality, John Wilkes Booth, Justice, Kept, Lincoln, Loyalty, Marginalize, Military District, Nation, Noose, North, Obligation, Our American Cousin, Peonage, Photograph, Plantation, Planter, Poem, Poetry, Promontory, Prosperity, Racial Justice, Radical Republicans, Ratification, Reconstrution, Reincorporation, Relation, Resentment, Restitution, Ruin, Salvation, Scalawag, Sharecropper, Slavery, South, Stanton, Swing and Circle, Tennessee, Transform, Treason, Tyrant, Ulysses S Grant, Vote, Wept, Yeomanry
Leave a comment
First Principles: It Is By Rendering Justice To Other Nations That We Can Expect It From Them
“It is by rendering justice to other nations that we can expect it from them.” – James Monroe (1823) Annual Message to Congress
Posted in First Principles
Tagged Expect, First Principles, James Monroe, Justice, Nation, Render
Leave a comment
More Forgiveness Than I Deserve
The part of the sermon that I caught today had to do with forgiveness. Really I suppose it’s a matter of perception, correct? And it’s not about deserving. We all deserve ‘justice’. What we get is God’s mercy and love … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Behind, Blessed, Check, Christ, Conscience, Cross, Deserve, Embrace, Flow, Forget, Forgive, Forgiveness, Gift, Glad, God, Grace, Grateful, Happiness, His, Hope, Justice, Letting Go, Live, Lord, Love, Mercy, Mind, More, Perception, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Praise, Pray, Presence, Regret, Self, Sermon, Slight, Stress, Strife, Surrender, Trouble, Trust, Truth, Wrongs
Leave a comment
First Principles: The Essential Principles Of Our Government Are Equal and Exact Justice To All Whatever Persuasion
“It is proper you should understand what I deem the essential principles of our Government… Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever persuasion, religious or political.” – Thomas Jefferson (1801)
Posted in First Principles
Tagged All, Equal, Essential, Exact, First Principles, Government, Justice, Persuasion, Politcal, Principle, Proper, Religious, Thomas Jefferson, Understand
Leave a comment
Once Upon A Night In Bethlehem – I
Based in part on Micah 5:2: Once Upon A Night In Bethelhem – I by Michael Romani From Bethlehem will come the king With all the joy that this will bring It’s of His glory that we all will sing … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Advent, Bethlehem, Bite, Branch, Bring, Caravan, Cheer, Christian, Context, Crush, Disarray, Faith, Fall, Flow, Glory, His, History, Holy, Holy Star, Holy Ways, Humanity, Humble, Joy, Justice, King, Light, Live, Micah, Morn, News, Night, Nothing, Paradise, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prophecy, Rest, Right, Roots, Satan, Sing, Something, Sordid, Story, Sublime, Troubles, Westward, Witness, World, Year
Leave a comment
First Principles: The Liberties of Our Nation Are Secured By the Conviction These Are the Gift of God
“And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be … Continue reading
Posted in First Principles
Tagged Basis, Conviction, Country, First Principles, Gift, God, Just, Justice, Liberties, Nation, Secure, Sleep, Thomas Jefferson, Tremble, Violate, Wrath
Leave a comment
First Principles: Honor, Justice and Humanity Makes It Our Duty To Pass Liberty On To Our Children’s Children
“Honor, justice, and humanity, call upon us to hold, and to transmit to our posterity, that liberty which we received from our ancestors. It is not our duty to leave wealth to our children, but it is our duty to … Continue reading
Posted in First Principles
Tagged Ancestors, Call, Children, Duty, First Principles, Honor, Humanity, John Dickinson, Justice, Liberty, Posterity, Transmit, Wealth
Leave a comment
Thought For the Day: Generally, Societies Flourish and Decline To the Degree These Exercise the Duties of Justice and Humanity
“As a general truth, communities prosper and flourish, or droop and decline, in just the degree that they practise or neglect to practise the primary duties of justice and humanity.” – William Henry Seward, Secretary of State, Governor, and Senator … Continue reading
Posted in First Principles
Tagged Community, Decline, Degree, Duty, Humanity, Justice, Practice, Primary, Prosper, Thought For the Day, Truth, William Henry Seward
Leave a comment
First Principles: Cultivate Peace and Harmony With All Nations By Observing Good Faith and Justice
“Observe good faith and justice towards all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.” – George Washington
Posted in First Principles
Tagged All Nations, Cultivate, First Principles, George Washington, Good Faith, Harmony, Justice, Observe, Peace
Leave a comment
