Excellent article! It made me tear up this morning...
How to Make the World a Better Place Despite the Roadblocks and Naysayers
by Courtney E. Martin
"The world was a cruel, unjust place and, far from saving it, I felt stuck in it. Then I learned that I should fight to change it anyway...In fact, the world will not be saved. It will be changed. It looks more like your mom -- her palm on your fevered forehead, her handwritten schedule for sharing childcare with neighbors, her letter to the editor to the local newspaper -- than it does your president. Activism is a daily, even hourly experiment in dedication, moral courage, and resilience.
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Instead we must look to one another for the spark. We must integrate lessons from the visionaries and pavement-pounders of yesteryear, but not become burned by waiting for their version of social change to manifest. Nor must we be relegated to sanitized point-and-click activism alone. Technology aids us, but it doesn’t define us. Our work, our hearts, our ingenuity are what determine our legacy.
In fact, the world will not be saved. It will be changed. It looks more like your mom -- her palm on your fevered forehead, her handwritten schedule for sharing childcare with neighbors, her letter to the editor to the local newspaper -- than it does your president. Activism is a daily, even hourly experiment in dedication, moral courage, and resilience.
Our charge is not to “save the world,” after all; it is to live in it, flawed and fierce, loving and humble."
http://www.alternet.org/story/148048/how_to_make_the_world_a_better_place_despite_the_roadblocks_and_naysayers?utm_source=Ode+Newsletters&utm_campaign=89adbf59b5-daily-rss&utm_medium=emailedit for typo in subject
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