http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Deonils8433/In the light of BLOGIT"S own Vision statement, and those of top bloggers past and present, are we hypocrites or valiant warriors for the honor code among writers? How do we perceive historical and current struggles for more humanity and human rights? Does the bible help guide us towards greater freedom and equality (it did for the abolitionists).hourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Deonils8433/385045Two events converge, both have international dimensions and importance. I still believe in America, though I do not believe that human love alone is enough to take us over the bridge of sighs. As Langston Hughes believed in the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s...during Jim Crow, segregation and lynchings of...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Deonils8433/152461With the exception of having omitted Lincoln (Gettysburg Address that I love), these quotations from our second and third Presidents, and including that from Founding Father, Benjamin Franklin, are a fitting way to commemorate the great foundations bequeathed us by these towering figures of human...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Deonils8433/150306DO YOU KNOW THAT THE FIGHT FOR WOMEN'S RIGHTS WAS JUMP-STARTED BY FEMALE ABOLITIONISTS IN AMERICA? The good BOOKS TELLS US TO DO GOOD BECAUSE THE POSITIVE ENERGY released through charity is THE SECRET OF THE CIRCULATORY LAW - the same sort of law that operates when money (currency) is in...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Deonils8433/147483"Hypocrisy is anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised." -- Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi (1828-1910) "Let no man think we can deny civil liberty to others and...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Deonils8433/134319"I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seek-- And finding only the same old stupid plan Of dog eat dog, of mighty crush the weak." ----Langston Hughes, Poet of the Harlem Renaissance. "PUNSTER"S POEM, 2004" Writing is a haven A mode of self-instruction I brandish my pen No weapon of mass...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Deonils8433/133657IS YOUR MIND LOCKED OR J-LOCKE-D? John Locke talked about rights we humans enjoy as creations of a Providential being. These rights precede civil government and are "inalienable." Thomas Hobbes focussed on power. He saw power as absolute and humans engaged in endless battles for domination. Locke...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Deonils8433/132543Nobel Peace Prize for President Bush. Will he take this chance for Peace? Will the President consider abolishing War after he wins the 2004 Elections? If he does, he may empower the UN with an international ARMY under African Command. Based on human behavior - including that of bloggers - we will...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Deonils8433/132295"FORGIVE AND LIVE, or we'll kill ya!" Brown Mon, you gotta give, give, give - So says the Good Book, you betta believe Black Man, forget the past and live Live in the now, let us write history Or we shall add your name to that mystery Ah, our prayers, that too is a mystery... While we protect the...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Deonils8433/132121The stones and stumps of the desert cry within They are my sisters, brothers, kith and kin "Lifeless," some say - yet warm with age, forgiveness Deserving so much the presence of gods and Truths But their gods died trying to stop Columbus Who took their gold and maize with our compass The tree...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Deonils8433/131554PURSUIT OF LIFE, liberty and double standards... in Blogitania and Utopia. Have you wondered sometimes why it is that WEB LOGGING sounds just like "blogging"? I have wondered why there are so many admonitions and proverbs that "people in glass houses should not throw stones," and that One ought...