Tag Archives: Racial injustice
FMM 12 17 2021 Platforms
“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.” ~ Edith Wharton. The first corny joke that I remember learning was a play on words. This is not as effective when you have to read it, but here goes: “What is black and white and red all […]
FMM 1 29 21 Hey, Cousin!
“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.” ~ Dalai Lama. As a young child, I was used to family get-togethers surrounded by cousins. On my father’s side I had nine cousins, and on my mother’s side I had 7, and when you added either of those to the five kids […]
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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