Today’s Thursday Thought quote comes from Maya Angelou, who experienced hate and wrote powerful poetry about it.
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Silence
Again and again we hear people excuse their inaction in the face of cruelty and injustice with the declaration that one person can’t make any difference. They acknowledge that people are suffering but believe that the problem doesn’t really affect them or their loved ones. As today’s Thursday Thought quote shows, Martin Luther King, Jr., had a very different view.
- He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.
- History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
- In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’
- Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
It’s time to speak up!
Guns Are No Problem
People who say that the easy availability of guns is not a problem obviously don’t watch the daily news. Just this morning, there were reports of six people being shot. There are news stories almost every day about at least one or two shootings, often with child-victims and people sitting within their own homes. At what point does it become a problem?