From “The Human Condition: A User’s Manual,” by Arnold Kunst
12 October
Margaret Meade famously said, "never doubt that a
single person protesting can make all the difference." At one point the 1960’s
the famous 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.
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