It is not because we have value that we are loved, but because we are loved that we have value. Our value is a gift, not an achievement.
When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston there was a great deal of hope in the air. Martin Luther King Jr. was alive Malcolm X was alive great great leaders were emerging from the southern freedom movement.
I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on...
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It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.
The acting is something that will always be a part...