My Quaker Iowa mother died two years
ago at ninety. Agnes never quit thinking she
might make a difference. Out on the picket
line against the doomsday towers, fighting for money
for head start, reminding us of the need to get rid
of nuclear weapons. Somehow I need to carry on
what she left me, left us all.
To speak truth to power. To be a voice dissenting
from the manufacture of consent.
To remember that war is the health of the state.
There is no explanation of the terror of 9/11/01
except that evil people hate us because we believe
in freedom. To try to examine the causes of
terrorism is to justify it, is to be unpatriotic.
The United States contains six percent of the
world's population consuming 30 to 50 per cent of
the world's resources.
Let us see then what love can do. There is a spirit
that delights to do no evil. I want to
live in that light that takes away the occasion for
all war. I want to learn how to walk lightly
over the earth.
There is a spirit that delights to do no evil.
I want to live in the light that takes away
the occasion for all war.