An Oscar-nominated film is exposing an infuriating situation unfolding in my home-state of Alabama. "The Alabama Solution" provides a look inside the nation's deadliest prison system, told by the inmates themselves.
Renee was one of my students years ago. I held her baby. She was kind and talented, a working class mom who put herself through school despite circumstances that would’ve crumpled the pathetic rich boy politicians who sadistically abetted her murder
God damn them all
No one should be forced to flee, nor exploited or mistreated because of their situation as foreigners or people in need! Human dignity must always come first!
In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
Let us #PrayTogether that the leaders of nations may be free from the temptation to use wealth against humanity, turning it into weapons that destroy peoples and monopolies that demean workers. Whoever serves God becomes free from wealth, but whoever serves wealth remains its slave! Whoever seeks justice transforms wealth into the common good; whoever seeks domination transforms the common good into the prey of their own greed.
Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, and Cynthia Wesley were murdered on this day in 1963 in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham. May their memory continue to compel us to protect & expand the dream of a society where justice prevails.
“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
— J.R.R. Tolkien