Does this count? Is his voice enough?

In recent years, I have become increasingly concerned by a host of radical government policies that now threaten many basic principles espoused by all previous administrations, Democratic and Republican.

These include the rudimentary American commitment to peace, economic and social justice, civil liberties, our environment and human rights.

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It is time for the deep and disturbing political divisions within our country to be substantially healed, with Americans united in a common commitment to revive and nourish the historic political and moral values that we have espoused during the last 230 years.

- Jimmy Carter

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The Lunacy of Unspoken Words

I had some important things to say, and I worked hard to put the words together. Words like deceitfulness and mendacity and duplicity. Like incompetence and corruption, resignation and indictment. Words like that.

Oh, I didn't exactly have the words ready to go. I was working on them. Getting them ready. Polishing their shine.

Oh, not exactly that, either. Truth be told, I couldn't bring myself to contemplate the necessary thoughts. And no one would want to listen, anyway, which made the words harder to find.

So I walked outside and emptied the trash. And as I rounded the corner, ducking at the web the spider there spins daily, I looked up at the sky. Standing there on the gravel path that runs between our house and the next, in that little alley of space between us, my gaze was drawn to the sky because the path was lit so brightly in what is usually a very dark place.

There above me was the moon almost full. And below the moon, only a finger or two away, was Mars racing to the west, passing the moon, dashing after Venus that had set an hour or so earlier.

And with that, I knew that those words were doomed to be unspoken, which is ok, since I didn't really know what I was going to say, anyway.

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