Blessings to The Creator

Dear comrades,

“I start with the recognition that we are at war and that war is not simply a hot debate between the capitalist camp and the socialist camp on which economic, political, social arrangement will have hegemony in the world. It’s not just the battle over turf and who has the right to utilize resources for whomever’s benefit. The war is also being fought over the truth. What is the truth about human nature, about the human potential? My responsibility to myself, my neighbors, my family, and the human family is to try to tell the truth. And that ain’t easy.
There are so few truth speaking traditions in this society in which the myth of Western civilization has claimed the allegiance of so many. We have rarely been encouraged and equipped to appreciate the fact that the truth works, that the truth works, that it releases the spirit and that it is a joyous thing. We live in a part of the world, for example, that creates criticism with assault, that equates social responsibility for naive idealism that defines the unrelenting pursuit of knowledge and wisdom as fanaticism.” – Toni Cade Bambara (an excerpt from ‘Conversations with Toni Cade Bambara’)

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