IN RESPONSE TO DARA:
"Now I know that there are political theorists who claim that the essence of politics is power, but I submit they are wrong, even though power is a necessary element in the search for just solutions to the fundamental problems of our society. The essence of politics is the asking and re-asking of the most difficult of all questions--what is justice, and what is right? Men of good will seldom differ about ultimate goals, but these men do differ about means and timing and priorities. But these differences are the stuff of unending political discourse."
-Hubert Humphrey, just before the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act (italics mine)
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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