"to change the world we must stay hopeful...hope is the thing that will make you stand up when other people tell you to sit down, to make you speak up when people tell you to be keep quiet...resist hopelessness."
Weekly inspirational quotes and stories for people who strive to take action for love and justice.
Thursday, June 29, 2017
Thursday, June 1, 2017
Go to the Edges
The center is not where
You come to rest
Apart from it all,
But it is what holds you while
You go to
Edges.
Edges.
And go to them for
Everything you believe in,
For everything that is
Rare and real to you.
Go to the edges
For the gaping earth and the
Devastated lives,
For the swallowtail butterfly,
And the dog with the sad eyes,
And the mother who
Went thirsty for days
To flee a pointed gun
And cross a border.
Go for the one who does not know
That her laughter is fragile,
For the one who holds a flower
And not a bomb.
Peace
Is not an inherited gift,
But is made
As we live.
- Laura Martin
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