Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person; the neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm, or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman, and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.
|
They said, 'Here are the maps'; we burned the cities. It was not dying—no, not ever dying;...
|
They said, "Here are the maps"; we burned the cities. It was not dying—no, not ever dying;...
|
Maps encourage boldness. They're like cryptic love letters. They make anything seem possible.
|
The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.
|
No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just... come out the other side. Or you don't.
|
We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.
|
Even with the best of maps and instruments, we can never fully chart our journeys.
|
Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.... I was learning that books and diagrams can be evil things if the...
|