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There are times in life when a soul needs to hear Barbra Streisand singing “Avinu Malkeinu.” It needs to hear Verdi’s Requiem. It needs to hear John Coltrane’s saxophone screaming A Love Supreme. Peace Day 2011 was such a day. Peace Day, the UN International Day of Peace and Global Ceasefire falls on September 21 every year.
The TEA Party philosophy of new new taxes is not consistent with the founder if claims to honor.
The next election affords the nation an opportunity to decide what kind of country we will be. The meaning of America ought to be the issue. The discussion ought to revolve around what ordinary people expect from our government, what our national priorities will be, and how we intend to pay the nation’s bills.
Today, when I paid for my purchases, I shared my sadness with the woman behind the counter. she reminded me that the death of these stores will mean that some eleven thousand people will lose their jobs. And as sad as the closings are for me, they are even worse for the Borders employees.
The Declaration reminds us that while governments are instituted to secure individual human rights, that individuals ought to understand our common and collective responsibility to each other.
Our lives are so short. Every day we are alive to taste a new day’s dawning and to love life fiercely, we are blessed. Life itself is good news. It is a good day. And our own loving is a free gift that is ours to give regardless of the news.
we are at a moment in American history where we as a nation can choose the psychosis of white supremacy as embodied in birther madness, or we can choose the ideals of freedom, equality, justice, mutual respect and love. It is my choice to make. It is your choice to make.
Elizabeth Taylor’s life was not flawless. No human life is. She lived large, for all the world to see. She faced all that life brought her way, including sickness and her own misjudgments, with a grace that represents the divine impulse that lives inside every human soul.
When elected officials work for the benefit of the richest and not for the benefit of the rest, they are not unlike the deposed president of Egypt. In my opinion, it is an apt comparison.
The meaning and the importance of human rights is justice. It is the justice that is necessary for human dignity and for peace. If a democratic republic is to serve the interests of its entire people, it is imperative that the demos, the ordinary people, stand in solidarity with each other and insist upon their universal human rights.