Not sure if you remember the conversation (it was right at the end after you’d enjoyed a couple of bottles of vino!), but I asked you how you decide what to write in terms of blogs, books etc We met when you were in London earlier in the year when you shared something similar at the end of the evening in Trafalgar Square (great evening btw)
Tough decisions quote full#
We promise them that the world is full of opportunity and abundance and then tell them, “That’s the way the real world works” when they’re faced with a crushing disappointment. We tell them to write their own rules (within the natural boundaries of respect and comon sense) and then slam them when their rules don’t correspond with our own. We try to motivate our young people to be the best they can be, then tell them that the only true way to success is through one particular path. We urge them to use their creativity and then criticize them when they colour outside the lines.
Tough decisions quote tv#
We exhort them to be active while we sit in front of the TV or computer for five hours a night. We encourage them to speak their minds, then tell them to shut up in class (or, worse, around the dinner table). We tell kids to experiment and have fun with learning, then rank them as ‘passes’ or ‘failures’ based on some arbitrary scale. I wonder, Tim, why this message isn’t getting to our young people. These Fingertips found that particular wholly undeserved action by unknown others, *especially* under those particular circumstances, to be.īrilliant stuff, very appropriate in this 40th anniversary of the year of Dr King’s death. That day, this Fourth of July just past, I was. Have never before on the Net been censored. On the Fourth of July, I responded to a thread, a very, very, *very* long thread that revolved solely around FISA. For some seeking inspiration from another in action this moment, not a bad place to start.
Just a few hours ago, stumbled upon Yoani Sanchez’s endeavor for the first time. Things in our collective Worlds are spiraling out of control. It’s not always quite to the extreme mine was, but you can tell it, you can feel it when you meet someone else who is “There”. looking Death straight in the eye.įor others, it will be and has been extreme loss of that, whatever that is, which they value most. There’s no describing the “how-to” on this one. Took my self-advocacy from anonymouse to a very identifiable “me” the very next Net interaction after. With my fellow Georgia Voices That Count trainees. You died when you refused to stand up for justice.”įrom the sermon “But, If Not” delivered at Ebenezer Baptist Church on November 5, 1967. You died when you refused to stand up for truth. You died when you refused to stand up for right.
Well, you may go on and live until you are ninety, but you are just as dead at 38 as you would be at ninety.Īnd the cessation of breathing in your life is but the belated announcement of an earlier death of the spirit. You’re afraid that you will lose your job, or you are afraid that you will be criticized or that you will lose your popularity, or you’re afraid that somebody will stab or shoot or bomb your house. You refuse to do it because you want to live longer. And you refuse to do it because you are afraid. You may be 38 years old, as I happen to be, and one day, some great opportunity stands before you and calls upon you to stand for some great principle, some great issue, some great cause. “I say to you, this morning, that if you have never found something so dear and precious to you that you will die for it, then you aren’t fit to live. I encourage you to read the following, which helped me to eliminate the rationalization we so often use to avoid doing what is important. Dealing with most of them requires facing daunting - but transient - discomfort. There are a lot of hard choices and big decisions in life. The few words below cut through hours of meaningless deliberation and made the decision simple… I knew beforehand that it would lose me some readers. I thought I’d share the below quote, which was sent to me (Thanks, Thao!) when I was considering whether or not to put up the controversial FISA post.
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