A retired college teacher who has turned to poetry in his old age.
The reasons for doing military service are many. The vast majority choose it out of duty, love of country, sincere conviction to defend
By William Alfred4 months ago in Poets
There is a price to be paid for being contrary. True, there are times when common wisdom is wrong, when one must stand up and fight peer pressure.
Not all are welcome! And who gave you the right to speak for the Almighty? Did you ever think that you might be too stupid to judge for God?
If you’re in the habit of using social media and the tech on your phone to reinforce your blindspots, reinforce your ignorance and prejudice,
Then there are the petty dictators among us, who are so insecure and inwardly nothing at all that they cannot pass up a chance, no matter how small
You can’t get the honor without doing anything honorable. Standing in front of gullible people and telling them exactly what they want to hear is pathetic,
One of the tenets of non-violent resistance is that calmly insisting on your rights is a virtue. Those who threaten, attack, beat, and kill
Libraries are democracy’s temples of truth, the sources of the knowledge that people need in order to govern themselves. Faith may not
Humans evolved to band together, To help one another survive the blows Of heedless nature and fierce animals And avaricious other humans.
You can’t force other people to live the way you want them to. Or rather, you can—but then you can’t have a decent democracy.
The fat cats think they are “job creators,” but there are no fat cats without the workers. ____________________________________________________
If you insist on always getting your own way, on having so much “freedom” that no one can ask you to cede a personal “right” you want for yourself
