I plead for leniency. I understand that the road to redemption is going to be long for me.
The songs worked as a different kind of rhetoric, one that could reach the fence-sitters.
There is only one river. There is only one sea. And it flows through you, and it flows through me. There is only one people. We are one and the same. We are all one spirit. We are all one name.
To cure the violence, we must identify and heal the causes of hatred and violence. If we dont deal with the causes we will never be safe.
When people sing together, community is created. Together we rejoice, we celebrate, we mourn and we comfort each other. Through music, we reach each others hearts and souls. Music allows us to find a connection.
* We have come this far always believing that justice would somehow prevail. This is the burden, this is the promise, and THIS is why we will not fail.
People may say 'What can I do? I'm only one person. ' But we've proven that when we come together demonstrate, and speak our piece, there is no way the power structure can avoid being attentive.
If the president of the country is not actually saying something, allowing equality to happen, how could you expect to counsel kids not to bully other kids? If they're not seeing that their society sees gay people as equals, how could you tell them what they're doing is wrong? With all this stuff going on, with the "Don't ask, don't tell" and things like that, we are second-class citizens, definitely. It just seems to me that it's hypocritical for us as a culture to say, "Bullying is a terrible thing," when really, they are just reflecting what the society is doing.
Nobody felt sad as long as we could postpone tomorrow with more nostalgia.
Stomach: A slave that must accept everything that is given to it, but which avenges wrongs as slyly as does the slave.
The key to self-confidence is knowing that you would choose you. . . and why. In this way the chosen becomes the chooser, and love versus fear becomes the energy of choice.