Tag Archives: pacifism
FMM 9 12 2025 How Free is Free?
“America’s greatest contribution to the world is its concept of democracy, its concept of freedom, freedom of action, freedom of speech, and freedom of thought.” ~ Benazir Bhutto. Although I was old enough, I cannot say I remember where I was when Kennedy was killed. Our family had just moved to Jamaica, and I imagine […]
FMM 5 15 2020 Surface Tension
“We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. My parents were both pacifists. My father’s brothers were also pacifists and as young men in 1939, at the start of World War II, […]
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