Hope in a time of fear
on today's front page of DU:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/04/11/20_impossible.htmlThank you, DU, for putting this on the front page for me to find. It's the best thing I've read since November 2nd here at DU.
If we truly want to enact significant change, we will leave fear behind. Then it can't be used as a weapon against us.
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Nor should we forget that courage is contagious, that it overcomes the silence and fear that estrange people from one another. In Poland, during the early 1980s, leaders of the workers' support movement KOR made a point of printing their names and phone numbers on the back of mimeographed sheets describing incidents of police harassment against then-unknown activists such as Lech Walesa. It was as if, in the words of reporter Lawrence Weschler, they were "calling out to everyone else, 'Come on out! Be open. What can they do to us if we all start taking responsibility for our true dreams?'"As my absolute favorite politician actively serving America today said, "Courage America!"
Only by embracing courage and leaving fear behind will we manifest his campaign slogan, "Fear Ends, Hope Begins," and "Light Up America."
Courage, America.
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