“When we vote we participate in the construction of a context.”

Women and Men, Christians and Jews, Muslims and Buddhists, white, black, red, brown.

On faith’s battered back calm eyes etch prayers that cool a nation’s hot rage.

Until the past ten years, many defined the period primarily by its well-known literary, musical, and artistic elements while overlooking the fact there was any political component to it at all.

Delivering well-crafted speeches, assembling unified coalitions, passing historic legislation, signing well-aimed executive orders, and cultivating a poised but accessible demeanor.

It can make all the difference between a man, woman, or child allowing despair to permanently paralyze any dreams

The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the future.

The dancing vortex of a sacred metaphor clashes horns and halos to make wounded music set to the tempo of a new era in brilliant labor.

Here are lips of flame eager to be extinguished by love’s liquid sigh.

Mixtape’ is a very appropriate word to include in the title of Goran Hugo Olsson’s film because it includes a rich mixture of cultural voices.

Feet sandaled with dreams tread paths of vision leading to wisdom’s sharp peaks.

As history has demonstrated many times over, change may arrive slowly or quickly but it is the one constant, in one form or another, on which we can all count.

Life’s beginnings, along with all the muted and explosive moments that surface between the two extremes.

Just above our terror, the stars painted this story in perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too often abused by ignorance, covered our eyes with mercy.

There is in Albert Camus’ literary craftsmanship a seductive intelligence that could almost make a reader dismiss his philosophical intentions if he had not insisted on making them so clear.

Passion presented with a greater challenge achieves a greater goal.

And what you know from the depths of your own heart to the peaks of your soul to be true. What happens after that is up to you.