Thanks to News & Guts follower Lynne Hasselman for sending us these inspiring thoughts:
“Dan has said that he is at heart an optimist. I only wish I could say the same for myself. I’m trying--perhaps you are too. As our country struggles and gasps under the weight of this administration and its ineptitude, and as we are continually battered by natural disasters made worse by our own inability to acknowledge and make real progress on climate change, I remind myself daily that intelligence, goodness, and common sense will one day again prevail.
“The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger,” said FDR. “The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity or it will move apart.”
Now is the time for all of us to bring whatever we have to the table—our voices, our talents, our goodwill, our powers of persuasion, our volunteer efforts, our donations, our support for one another. We need it all and we need it now—in the White House and in Congress, in Puerto Rico and the USVI, California, Florida and Texas, in combatting violence by those who wield power and influence without conscience, in the myriad of other injustices facing our country and our world.
We don’t need it only for ourselves, we need it for the next generation and for all those who served our country with honor and courage. We owe them.
Stand firm, stand strong and stand non-violently, but stand together. It’s the only way we can move forward to build something better and greater than these times in which we live.”
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