Dear Parents
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” Voltaire A dark quote that points to a… more »
Focus and Discipline
History teaches us that negative forces will always try to smear and distort those on the side of justice, that… more »
Strategically aimed
In Why David Sometimes Wins: Leadership, Organization, and Strategy in the California Farm Worker Movement (Oxford, 2009), Marshall Ganz tells… more »
Full Day in Court
My part has been to tell the story of the slave. The story of the master never wanted for narrators…. more »
Planning the day
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world…. more »
Cats and Stereotyping
The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. But he… more »
Lives of Actual People (Coates)
“…thought it was important to always remember that compromise, whatever its virtue, isn’t an abstract concept. It’s the compromising of… more »
“When this ultimate crisis comes…”
“When this ultimate crisis comes… when there is no way out – that is the very moment when we explode… more »
Freedom Riders: The Music
Only thing I can think of today is music from the Civil Rights Movement. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuZQkl09Jho https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkepImblcSw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66_kqSG6aHI Southern Sons 1940’s… more »
“…all I want to say.” MLK
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” Martin Luther King I stood in… more »
Coming Out About Love
“I took the Dalai Lama to a Ski Resort and He Told Me the Meaning of Life” The author tells… more »
Keep Moving Forward
“It is not up to you to finish the work, but neither are you free not to take it up.”-The… more »
Just a serious joke today
It was the final examination for an introductory Biology course at the local university. Like many such freshman courses, it… more »
Thinking can save a life
I worried over S, the student who sat in the back of his math class day after day, lost in his… more »
“A Message to America’s Teachers from James Meredith”
“The destiny of America is in your hands. We are in a Dark Age of American education, but you will… more »