“You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say, ‘you are free to compete with all the others,’ and still justly believe that you have been completely fair.”—LBJ, 1965
“I have no patience with people who grow old at sixty... Sixty should be the time to start something new, not put your feet up.”
― Mary Wesley @WomenRead#marywesley
Meanwhile in San Jose:
A woman posted online asking people to bring their dogs by her house to help her dad celebrate his 100th birthday.
More than 200 pups showed up.
In 2005 Kevin Berthia went to the Golden Gate Bridge to end his life.
He ended up talking about his life with Officer Kevin Briggs for 92 minutes while he was on the edge of the bridge.
10 years later they meet on the same bridge in much better circumstances.
Good words and good people can change everything. Via: Stuff h/t
'I didn't sacrifice 21 years of my life to stand idly by while religious fanatics ... try to impose fascism on my country' — This Navy veteran is telling Florida's Martin County School District to get its hands off his kid's books
A new study finds that 1 out of every 6 autistic children is expelled from preschool prior to elementary school entry. This is one of many direct consequences of our failure to professionalize, train, & adequately compensate the early childhood workforce. https://t.co/jiY4xbycVY