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“Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.” — Martin Luther King Jr. The Interfaith Justice Coalition is inviting me and others in the area to attend a candlelight vigil tonight for Alex Pretti. I am mulling over where I stand during this turbulent time.  What wisdom do I draw on? Two stories, two incidents, from the sixties help. They were incidents that happened in my memory of the Civil Rights era that seem to rise

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have. - Abraham Lincoln The grandkids are yelling out those dreaded words. “That’s not fair!” Seems like they are constantly watching for infringements on fairness. And they have their own ways of determining what is fair. Often I feel I must jump into the fray. But I'm mad. A part of me just wants to shut them up - wants to stifle the protests and s

“If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.” Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, first black woman in congress A...

"There's more here, sir, than meets the eye." John Galsworthy's book, The Man of Property, when the inspector looks over the dead body...

“In this treacherous world/Nothing is the truth nor a lie./Everything depends on the color/Of the crystal through which one sees it.” ―...

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have. -...