The Human Rights movement is going to come back⦠like so many seeds around the world we will break through the concrete⦠in this case concrete and steel filled with extra pounds of lies hate and fear.
Muhammad Ali reminded us that it is not about how often we are knocked down but how many times we continue to get up. We have some difficult days ahead and we will have to be smart and strategic. We will be tested everyday as we live within a country where the insane are governing one of the great democracies. I remind myself of some struggles that went through some dark and dangerous days and eventually found some justice.
I lived in Nicaragua during the last nine months of the Samosa dictatorship. We watched our young men damaged by the Viet Nam war come back to hate-filled Americans, and we have all seen the attacks on human and civil rights movements in this country by the FBI. And lest we not forget our god-filled lynchings of the past β a lot of this madness supported by a book called the Bible.
Those rounded up in Chile and Argentina stayed strong and kept hope alive as they were tortured or killed and late at night they wondered who might be killed next. But they never gave up and we cannot give up. A hour trip of driving and most people stayed in their lanes, there were speed limits, and guard rails especially at some most dangerous curves which were well announced.
Winning does not mean you were right or just⦠we have seen our government over the years embrace laws and policies that it took decades to reverse because they were unjust and unfair to one and all. I am going to take better care of my health since I want to run with you towards the future. I want to live to see accomplish what is right and just.
