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From: John H
From: John H
I am sending along the attached article by Rebecca Solnit from this month's Harper's Magazine because I believe it makes some extremely important (and generally overlooked or dismissed) points about how those of us seeking constructive change need to focus on moving forward. I am all for engaging with those with whom we disagree, but we must not forget the importance of being together with and supporting those with whom we agree on most, if not all, things. This means we cannot just focus in one direction. We also need to heed Solnit's words in the final paragraph of her article:
"Within most examples of broad consensus lie a host of questions and unresolved differences. Agreement is only the foundation. Yet from here we can build strong communities of love, spirited movements of resistance. 'We cannot walk alone,' Dr. King said that day in 1963. Find people to walk with – and talk with – and we find power as well as pleasure."
I would only add that therein lies the courage and the willingness to fight on by going out into the larger community and living our beliefs with strength and conviction.
John
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