The Way Forward

"Think of the rare moment when someone dared to say, "Fuck off," to that dictator while the rest of you stood silent,
complicit in your own humiliation.



Al Green is the only person who fought for the people. When Trump was speaking, the rest of you surrendered.

Every single progressive soul in that Chamber... Every person that rejects the Far Right's warped vision of America...
should have RISEN UP.

When one voice is silenced or booted out, let another rise in its place,"

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I am reminded of these scenes in the movie, Gandhi...



+ Gandhi's rationale for the Salt March:



Let us be the 💗💙💛 that beats within Amanda' Gorman's staggering poem, "The Hill We Climb"...

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/01/amanda-gormans-inauguration-poem-the-hill-we-climb/

+ the spirit that lives within her poem, "We Rise"...

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/01/amanda-gormans-inauguration-poem-the-hill-we-climb/

"Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things." Philippians 4:8 (KJV)

Thus endeth the lesson.