QUOTES
We
all have choices. We can build walls or we can build bridges. We can give our
talents to creating weapons of annihilation, as so many scientists have done,
or we can work to find solutions to humanities greatest problems. Our orientation
is found not only in our acts, but also in the policies we support or oppose.
Each
of us matters. The world is created by the sum of our actions or inactions.
Hope
is a catalyst for change that gives birth to dreams and to action.
Hope
is not enough to change the world, to bring peace, to end starvation and poverty,
to provide a decent education for all children, or to prevent nuclear holocaust.
Yet it is a critical starting point for building a better and brighter future.
All of us are challenged to connect hope to action until we have created a might
river that will carve a new path to the future.
It
is late, but it is not too late. America may still wake up, and if it does it
will be because people like all of us have not given up on America or on a human
future. It will be because ordinary Americans do not have the courage-deficit
that our leaders have so readily and consistently displayed. It will be because
the voices of the people rise up and demand change and because we become the leaders
we have been waiting for.
During
World War II, the Nazis put their victims into gas chambers and then incinerated
them in ovens. While the Nazis took their victims to the incinerators, those who
possess and threaten to use nuclear weapons plan to take these weapons — these
portable incinerators — to the victims.
