Freedom

Together, we shall write an American story of hope, not fear. Of unity, not division. Of light, not darkness. A story of decency and dignity. Love and healing. Greatness and goodness. May this be the story that guides us.

- President Joe Biden, at his 2021 January Inauguration. This was two weeks after Trump supporter’s violent insurrection at the U.S. Capital building.

Injustice anywhere, is a threat to justice everywhere.
- Martin Luther King Jr.

America will never be destroyed from the outside.  If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.  
- Abraham Lincoln

The idea that some lives matter less, is the root of all that is wrong with the world.
- Paul Farmer

The question isn't who's going to let me, it's who is going to stop me.
- Ayn Rand, author

Everything can be taken from a man, but one thing, the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude to any given set of circumstances, to choose one's way.
- Viktor Frankl, Nazi concentration camp survivor

The memory of oppressed people cannot be taken away, 
and for such people revolt is always an inch below the surface.
- Howard Zinn (1922-2010.  American historian, political science professor at Boston University playwright and social activist)

I am no longer accepting the things I can not change, I am changing the things I can not accept!

Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the Mountaineer.  Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.  The winds will blow their freshness into you and the storms their energy, while your cares drop off like autumn leaves.
- John Muir

The most common way people give up their power, is by thinking they don't have any.
- Alice Walker, author

THE PEACE OF WILD THINGS

Wendell Berry

When despair for the world grows in me

and I wake in the night at the least sound

in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,

I go and lie down where the wood drake

rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.

I come into the peace of wild things

who do not tax their lives with forethought

of grief. I come into the presence of still water.

And I feel above me the day-blind stars

waiting with their light. For a time

I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.