"Poverty, disease, and ignorance are our enemy, not our fellow man."

[Skidmore]

Lyndon Johnson in the Voter Rights Speech.

Johnson, in this speech made a case for unity between those struggling for civil rights and poor whites who had been denied opportunity as well as a byproduct of the old systems that pushed class and race as determinants of social and economic progress. I have watched this speech twice today on C-SPAN. Pleas go and watch it in their archives, if nothing else. This is where the Dems need to return. Those in power now are dividing us against one another on those same lines. We see it every day. Johnson was so right, as was MLK. Please watch this speech.

[kineneb]

1. just like the four horsemen of the Apocalypse

famine, war, pestilence and death, depending on which version one chooses...

[wildflower]

2. Recommended; thank you for letting us know about the speech. n/t

[Ian David]

3. There is a greater darkness than the one we fight

G'Quon wrote, 'There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way.' The war we fight is not against powers and principalities -- it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope, the death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender. The future is all around us, waiting in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future, or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.
- The book of G'Kar