This is what we do on Sabbatical. Read and ponder and meditate and hope and rest and refresh.
"But how shall we educate men to goodness, to a sense of one another, to a love of truth? And more urgently, how shall we do this in a bad time?"
Father Daniel Berrigan, Cover of Time Magazine, January 25, 1971.
For more on Father Berrigan, the only Jesuit Priest ever to be on the FBI's most wanted list, click here.
(for more on Time Magazine, ask your parents)
More urgently indeed.
"Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth tiny ripples of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance."
Robert Kennedy, Day Of Affirmation Address, Cape Town University, June 6, 1966. (That's Cape Town South Africa for our robed readers, not Cape Town Gas and Cafeteria in Hialeah).
(For more on Robert Kennedy, go back to college or ask your college for a refund)
Where is our Robert Kennedy today? Because we don't see any on the horizon, absent - stand by for an outrageous backlash in the comments- the current Mayor of NYC (ouch, but we said it and we mean it).