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Posted by: Art on 3/22/1998@11:41hrs:
In Reply to: Say No to Group Home posted by: Say No To Group Home on 3/21/1998@15:34hrs:
Here is a quote from a Wagner College Faith and Life week colloquium about prejudice. I think it may provide some leavening for the underlying thoughts which are not being articulated by those who are "standing up" to the unknown.
"God pity us, indeed, for we are humans and do not always see the vision when it comes. Or if we see it, we do not follow it because it is too strange, too new, too hard, caring too much with our common easy ways. We expect nothing, no fruit or blossom from this barrenness. Life is not lost by the dying, but is lost minute by minute, day by day, in all the sullen, small, and uncaring ways. Yes, life can be lost by death, but also by not caring, or willing to go beyond the ragged edge of fortitude to do and be something more that no-one else has seen or done. You who have bitterness for lack of money, you who have loved yourselves, and we who have loved and lost and thought we could love again will rise up! For the loves we have had are not enough! This loosening and changing and shaking of the world belongs to us, and with it, you must change."