When A Library Is Open,

Democracy Only Works When We Claim It As Our Own.

Charity Depends On The Vicissitudes Of Whim And Personal Wealth; Justice Depends On Commitment Instead Of Circumstance. Faith-based Charity Provides Crumbs From The Table; Faith-based Justice Offers A Place At The Table.

The Things I Really Cared About - Poverty, The Great Society, Civil Rights - Were All Being Drained Away By The Vietnam War. The Line That Keeps Running Through My Mind Is The Line I Never Spoke: "i Can't Speak For A War That I Believe Is Immoral."

Fox News And Rush Limbaugh Have Raised Ignorance To Ideology And Stupefied An Entire Political Party. No More Roguish And Rowdy Band Of Predators Ever Did More To Demean And Despoil The Democracy On Whose Carcass They Feed.

Here Is The Crisis Of The Times As I See It: We Talk About Problems, Issues, Policies, But We Don't Talk About What Democracy Means - What It Bestows On Us - The Revolutionary Idea That It Isn't Just About The Means Of Governance But The Means Of Dignifying People So They Become Fully Free To Claim Their Moral And Political Agency.