“Courage is the foundation of integrity.” – Anonymous

From “The Human Condition: A User’s Manual,” by Arnold Kunst

15 October

Margaret Meade famously said, "never doubt that a single person protesting can make all the difference." At one point the famous 1960’s baby doctor Benjamin Spock went to the Johnson White House to hear how we were winning the war in Vietnam, and on the way in passed two or three women protesting that same war in the snow outside the White House. It was relatively early in the war when protesting was anything but fashionable. It’s arguable that those women felt utterly alone, defeated.

But somehow they got through to Spock who ended up being one of the first major figures in this country to protest that war.

Please, don’t assume your efforts can’t/won’t make any the difference. In fact, that kind of defeatist attitude just may be a kind of blasphemy.