Lions grow old but they are still lions...
Happy birthday old lion...
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When freedom is intellectualized it can be mitigated by intellectual method, made less, and less, and less, and less… When understood by the heart, freedom is inviolable. (posted earlier) You can’t have a free society unless it is a just society; you can’t have a just society unless you make it so, and it can’t be so without inviolate human rights. (posted earlier) Please give to the National Breast Cancer Foundation, Inc./ 2600 Network Boulevard, Suite 300/ Frisco, Texas, 75034/ 972-248-9200 altered on 10/15/16: "Cynicism is a self-devouring cage, a prison cell that creates self-doubt, which has no horizons only self-imposed limitations, a flat and scorched earth. Idealism as gossamer concrete, newly born, fragile and tenuous, can grow; can morph, into a foundation of hope. Idealism as salvation can be a dogged, taciturn, and adventurous pursuit of life, building a future where there was none, human being by human being…"
amended on 7/17:
In response to the wounding of and murders of innocent police officers and others in Dallas and Baton Rouge: Please give to the Police Protective Fund/ P.O. Box 1084/ Schenectady, New York, New York, 72301/ 877-343-2477, and: Please give to the Red Cross (Dallas): 4800 Harry Hines Boulevard/ Dallas, Texas 75235/ 214-678-4800, and: the Red Cross (Baton Rouge): 4655 Sherwood Common Boulevard/ Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70816/ 225-291-4533 Black Lives Matter (Too)...* In response to the tragic loss of two lives in police shootings in Minneapolis and Baton Rouge in which Alton Sterling and Philando Castile were wrongfully killed -- Please support the NAACP/ 4805 Mt. Hope Drive/ Baltimore, Maryland, 21215/ 410-580-5777 *See 8/30/15 post: Carbuncle Moon Happy Fourth of July:
Escaping religious persecution, famine, ethnic cleansing, the secret police, serfdom, slavery, gaining a voyage of tears, seeking a meal, salvation, work, the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, shanghaied or shipped in chains, all tribes, all peoples, the world over, converge in this America... On July 4, 1776, the United States of America became an independent nation founded on the inviolable rights of its citizens. American human rights became foundational to the rule of law -- freedom, liberty, and justice. With an imperfect but incredible beauty of heart, America has evolved from original belief to a testament of human achievement, a work in progress... “Elie Wiesel, the Auschwitz survivor who became an eloquent witness for the six million Jews slaughtered in World War II and who, more than anyone else, seared the memory of the Holocaust on the world’s conscience, died on Saturday at his home in Manhattan.” A Nobel Peace Prize Winner "(h)e was 87.”
Elie Wiesel wrote in Night: “Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed. Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies I saw turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky. Never shall I forget those flames which consumed my faith forever. Never shall I forget the nocturnal silence which deprived me, for all eternity, of the desire to live. Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God himself. Never.” - New York Times Please give to: United States Fund for UNICEF (Children's Rights and Emergency Relief Organization)/125 Maiden Lane, 11th Floor/ New York, NY 10038/ 1-212-686-5522 |
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