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Since 1998 I've been sending out these reflections first thing each
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Quote #1190 - #InAction
16 Jun, 2025
IN ACTION
"There are no kings in America
we are not that kind of country.
We are sanctuary for the hungry,
the homeless, the huddled,
held together by an idea
our immigrant fathers believed in.
Rendered, it meant independence.
Pursued, it kindled war, ordinance,
a fighting chance...
There are no kings in America.
Only gilded men we can topple
again and again."
Aileen Cassinetto
"Hypocrisy is the audacity to preach integrity from a den of corruption."
Wes Fesler
"I am learning that the best cure for hypocrisy is community. Hypocrisy is not so much the result of not living what I preach but much more of not confessing my inability to fully live up to my own words."
Henri J. M. Nouwen
We marched, we did
with three good friends and thousands
of others.
We danced, we did
with the New Orleans jazz band
that accompanied our funeral line.
Funeral line?
What were we mourning?
The naiveté that allowed us to believe
that we all ever aspired to
democracy.
The truth is many aspired only to
power,
and not even power to do good,
just power,
and privilege,
and money.
And this is where it has led us.
If we do not rise up
and topple this particular group of gilded men,
we will not ever get another chance
to aspire to anything.
Shellen Lubin
June 16, 2025
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