An optimist isn't necessarily a blithe, sappy whistler in the dark.
To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic.
If we remember those times and places where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us energy to act and
at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.
~Howard Zinn
2 comments:
This is grand, Billie.
Maybe it's naïveté showing, but I've come to believe optimists whistle in the light, because they envision a world with fewer shadows and looming darkness. Only be seeing what our world and society can be will we find the courage and stamina to make it a place than it is.
Thanks for passing this along. It's going straight into my file of redeeming quotes!
I am an optimist, I think that President Obama is stopping the accelerated decline of the USA, that we saw during the Presidency of George W. Bush.
James Carville, the funny guy of CNN wrote a book about the next 40 years of Democratic Party Hegemony. I hope that he is right at least for only 10 years more.
Can you imagine the USA in the hands of the present Demagogues ??.
I am studying the modern American Demagogues - I hope that I do not offend you or any of your readers :
The ( Irish and German ) Catholic inside Great Demagogues : Father Charles Edward Coughlin, Senator Joseph McCarthy, Tim McVeigh, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, Sarah Palin, Tom Tancredo, Jan Brewer, Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler
Vicente Duque
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