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Steve Silberman

Exactly the message you need to hear today, by Howard Zinn [via Patrice Wynne]

TO BE HOPEFUL IN BAD TIMES is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places-and there are so many—where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don't have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory. — Howard Zinn
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M.S. Bellows, Jr.

@stevesilberman Thanks, Steve. I really needed to hear that message.

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Bill Hooker

@stevesilberman Shorter Howard: the one you feed. 🙂

Amata :verified_genderqueer:

@stevesilberman put a little more simply…

Meme from The Office where Jim explains things with a whiteboard. Top says “When people travel to the past, they worry about radically, changing the present by doing something small.” The bottom says, “Few people think that they can radically change the future by doing something small in the present.”
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DB Schwein

@stevesilberman

To quote a friend (who was probably quoting someone else):
"Hope in the face of overwhelming sadness is punk as fuck."

Climb of the Vine

@stevesilberman

𝘍𝘢𝘳 𝘢𝘮 𝘣𝘪 𝘮𝘪 𝘧𝘩ì𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘯 𝘢 𝘣𝘩𝘪𝘰𝘴 𝘮𝘰 𝘥𝘩ò𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘴.
💚☮️🌍🌸🌍🌈🌏🌞💚
𝘍𝘢𝘳 𝘢𝘮 𝘣𝘪 𝘮𝘪 𝘧𝘩ì𝘯 𝘣𝘪𝘥𝘩 𝘮𝘰 𝘥𝘩ò𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘯.

Climb of the Vine

@stevesilberman

“Wherever I’ll be, that’s where my hope will be.
Wherever I’ll be, my hope will be there.”

Mary Austin

@stevesilberman Thank you Steve! Much needed these days.

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