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Chichiri

(4,667 posts)
Wed Mar 2, 2016, 11:16 PM Mar 2016

"We have no need of false revolutions..."

"...In a world where categories tend to tyrannize our minds
And hang our wills up on narrow pegs.
It is well at every given moment to seek the limits in our lives.
And once those limits are understood
To understand that limitations no longer exist.
Earth could be fair. And you and I must be free
Not to save the world in a glorious crusade
Not to kill ourselves with a nameless gnawing pain
But to practice with all the skill of our being
The art of making possible."

--from a poem by Nancy Scheibner, recited at the 1969 Wellesley student commencement by Hillary D. Rodham.

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"We have no need of false revolutions..." (Original Post) Chichiri Mar 2016 OP
Thanks for sharing Thinkingabout Mar 2016 #1
K&R. nt UtahLib Mar 2016 #2
She should make this her stump speech, lol jsmirman Mar 2016 #3
It really does. Lucinda Mar 2016 #4
K&R! DemonGoddess Mar 2016 #5
OMG This is just perfect! Her Sister Mar 2016 #6
Prescient Rose Siding Mar 2016 #7

jsmirman

(4,507 posts)
3. She should make this her stump speech, lol
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 04:16 AM
Mar 2016

I mean, it basically describes her political philosophy better than anything I've heard her come up with so far.

 

Her Sister

(6,444 posts)
6. OMG This is just perfect!
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 09:49 AM
Mar 2016

That's the thing about HRC the more I know the more of a fan I become! There are just layers.

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