Granny D's
Politics of Nonviolence speech proves her crones-to-watch (and read) status. Delivered at Orchard House, home of the Alcotts, in Concord, Massachusetts, where "the great Quaker ... William Lloyd Garrison ... spoke to this very group so many years ago - as did Emerson and William James and Julia Ward Howe and other voices for justice,"
Granny D "humbly" raises her voice "in the long shadow of these people."
She addresses "two great and growing divisions ... separating us as Americans: rich versus poor, and left versus right," and speaks to the second of these, suggesting that "its resolution would help solve the other."
Truthfully, the entire article is quotable, so I'll stop here:
Where authority and power flow down from above, from heaven to the White House to husbands and ayatollahs, the free and joyful living of people can be quite the enemy...
Here it is: those in the clan of authority are not given the privilege - the natural right - of living their own lives. They do as they are told, say and think what they are told. Smothered is their curiosity and their healthy skepticism, and also their imagination, joy, freedom, and lust for life itself. When they see others actually living lives, they react with anger, as if someone had cut to the front of a line that, for them, never moves.
What is the proof of this theory? Those enthralled to authority, cowering under it, lose sight of their own lives. They will venerate above all else the symbol of the yet unruined potential of life: the curled-up unborn. The authority clan will have the image of an unborn baby as its flag, and they will claim to honor and defend innocent life, but that will be a great lie to themselves. For they will not be the ones to demand DNA testing of all prisoners on death row; they will not be the ones to demand health insurance for all children, or better nutrition in all schools, or peaceful alternatives to international conflicts. They will be the ones to rail against these things, for the authority clan parades itself as pro-life while it is truly more like a cult of death. Having died themselves, strangled by authority and fear, they cannot wish happy lives for others - they cling only to that magic symbol of what might have been. They relate to the unborn baby selfishly; it is themselves: unborn, unlived, still hoping for a life.
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