Yes+We+Can!++Can+we+really?

 When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. -Jimi Hendrix 

We've been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope. But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.-Barack Obama 

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.-Dwight D. Eisenhower 

From time to time indeed, enterprising and ambitious men will arise in democratic communities, whose unbounded aspirations cannot be contented by following the beaten track. -Alexis deTocqueville (see! even deTocqueville has some hope for America)

By itself, that single moment of recognition between that young white girl and that old black man is not enough. It is not enough to give health care to the sick, or jobs to the jobless, or education to our children. But it is where we start. It is where our union grows stronger. And as so many generations have come to realize over the course of the two-hundred and twenty one years since a band of patriots signed that document in Philadelphia, that is where the perfection begins. Barack Obama, in his speech on Race

The Grapes of Wrath-John Steinbeck **
 * Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

Reflection on the future of America Last Page: Racism? Today? In America?!