September 2010
45 posts
If We Must Die
If we must die--let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs, Making their mock at our accursed lot. If we must die--oh, let us nobly die, So that our precious blood may not be shed In vain; then even the monsters we defy Shall be constrained to honor us though dead! Oh, Kinsmen! We must meet the common foe; Though far outnumbered, let us show us brave, And for their thousand blows deal one deathblow! What though before us lies the open grave? Like men we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack, Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!
“When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.”
—Audre Lorde
(Existence+Yearning) x Growth -Toxicity = FREEDOM
Life’s Math
by @aisha1908
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In 2000, nearly every country in the world made a promise to achieve eight goals, including poverty reduction, women’s empowerment and universal primary education by 2015. How far have we gotten? NPR host Michel Martin speaks with two opposing voices about the progress made thus far: John MacArthur, CEO of Millennium Promise, and Bill Easterly, professor of economics at New York University.
