Archive For August 28, 2021
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. – Martin Luther King Jr. “I Have a Dream” Martin Luther King’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech, delivered at the 28 August 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, synthesized portions of his previous sermons and speeches, with selected statements by…
The Peekskill riots took place at Cortlandt Manor, Westchester County, New York, in 1949. The catalyst for the rioting was an announced concert by BLACK singer Paul Robeson, who was well known for his strong pro-trade union stance, civil rights activism, communist affiliations, and anti-colonialism. The concert, organized as a benefit for the Civil Rights Congress, was scheduled…
I have nowhere to return to. It’s like a state of imprisonment. The walls of the cell are the horizon of what I can see. Beyond them exists a world that’s alien to me and doesn’t belong to me. So for people like me the only thing possible is here and now, for every future…
Considered one of the darkest moments in American industrial labor history, the Ludlow massacre was a war between coal miners and the rich and powerful. Amidst dangerous working conditions and terrible pay, coal miners and their families were owned and ruled over by the Colorado Fuel & Iron Corporation, a Rockefeller company. The workers, helped…
Ignore, then, whether you are tall and thin or short and stock, whether they laughed at you at home (where they are often unkind) or at school (where they are mostly blind, anyway). Indeed – to hell with the lot of them if you ‘feel’ you can do it. – Percy Cerutty As a matter…
If you want to feel rich, just count the things you have that money can’t buy. – Proverb Cleaning up the Drafts file. Six years back or so. Guess that means – I’m no mathematician – now it’s half a century. Longer even. Came across a note I’d made almost forty-five years ago. Gives you…
The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even – if you will – eccentricity. That is, something that can’t be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn’t be happy with. – Joseph Brodsky I am virtually amazed I cast a literal shadow as I perpetually pretend to run….
Vincit qui patitur: he conquers, who endures. Don’t forget my ideas are only what’s been written down in history by the great people of the world who’ve gone before. All I’ve done is condense the wisdom of the world into an attitude for athletics. I’m not interested in athletics, I’m only interested in achievement. Athletics…
You must forget your last marathon before you try another. Your mind can’t know what’s coming. – Frank Shorter Don’t know why right now, but I was somewhat stunned by Frank’s description of demystification of marathoning. The mystery which eludes many race participants today is the puzzle of going as fast as possible. Checking In With…
At exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on August 6, 1945, Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb flashed above Hiroshima, Miss Toshiko Sasaki, a clerk in the personnel department of the East Asia Tin Works, had just sat down at her place in the plant office and was turning her…