The trouble is that not enough people have come together with the firm determination to live the things which they say they believe. Eleanor Roosevelt
Author Archives: RichardB
listening
“In the silence of listening, you can know yourself in everyone, the unseen singing softly to itself and to you.” Rachel Naomi Remen
tears and sighs
“I had seen their tears and sighs, and I had heard their groans, and I would give every drop of blood in my veins to free them.” Harriet Tubman
everyone of us
Each and everyone of us is born with a clean heart. Our babies know nothing about hate or racism. But soon they begin to learn — and only from us. We keep racism alive. We pass it on to our children. … We owe it to our children to help them keep their clean start. RubyContinue reading “everyone of us”
voice
There’s really no such thing as the ‘voiceless’. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard. Arundhati Roy