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sheshe2

(88,100 posts)
Thu Jan 5, 2017, 01:44 AM Jan 2017

"TO BE HOPEFUL"

“TO BE HOPEFUL in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.

What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places—and there are so many—where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.

And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.”
― Howard Zinn

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I leave you with this thought.


Love Peace and Harmony




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"TO BE HOPEFUL" (Original Post) sheshe2 Jan 2017 OP
Love Peace and Harmony She radical noodle Jan 2017 #1
To take care of one another... sheshe2 Jan 2017 #2
Light just one little candle.... brer cat Jan 2017 #3
I like him, immensely heaven05 Jan 2017 #4
It is a beautiful passage. sheshe2 Jan 2017 #5

brer cat

(26,479 posts)
3. Light just one little candle....
Thu Jan 5, 2017, 08:33 AM
Jan 2017

We can make it better for someone even if we can't fix the darkness all around us.

Love, peace and harmony to you, sheshe.

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