Few people who come along ever seem to be able to voice their opinions, let alone voice their opinions well.
The most silver tongued among us can make even the impossible seem plausible and many of them fight for all the wrong causes, unfortunately. Luckily, there are those among us that voice their opinion so eloquently as this young man has:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSQQK2Vuf...r_embedded
“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”
James Arthur Baldwin
The most silver tongued among us can make even the impossible seem plausible and many of them fight for all the wrong causes, unfortunately. Luckily, there are those among us that voice their opinion so eloquently as this young man has:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSQQK2Vuf...r_embedded
“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”
James Arthur Baldwin
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
