Monday Musings: April 12, 2010
Sunday, April 11, 2010 at 20:14 “But these savage, wolfish parties alarm me. Owning no law but their own will, more and more combative, less and less tolerant of the idea of ensemble and equal brotherhood, the perfect equality of the States, the ever-overarching American ideas, it behooves you to convey yourself implicitly to no party, nor submit blindly to their dictators, but steadily hold yourself judge and master over all of them.”
What an intriguing quotation - from ‘Democratic Vistas’ by Whitman - to begin the week with, and to reflect on.There is a great article in The Nation, from 2003, if you’d like to learn more about this great American poet and thinker.
That’s a good thing to begin the week with - knowledge. It empowers with the courage to be wise.
Mississippi Governor, Haley Barbour ( do I need to tell you that he’s a Republican?), thinks declaring April Confederate History Month without nary a mention of (shush!) slavery, doesn’t matter ‘diddly’. That’s what Virginia Governor, Bob McDonnell did.
