Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.  (Margaret Mead) . . . . "I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain." (James Baldwin) “History is not the past. It is the present. We carry our history with us. We are our history. If we pretend otherwise, we are literally criminals....I attest to this: the world is not white; it never was white, cannot be white. White is a metaphor for power, and that is simply a way of describing Chase Manhattan Bank.” (James Baldwin)