QUOTES OF THE DAY
"To be deprived of one’s story is the most ruthless form of oppression."
Tom Clarke

WISDOM AND PROPHECY
We are called to "enlarge the traditional image of seniors ... beyond that of wisdom to the more strenuous one of prophecy. The two are often in tension with each other. Wisdom speaks to us of tranquil enlightenment, an acceptance of the way things are as manifesting the divine presence. But wisdom's sibling, prophecy is often angry and fearful, denunciatory, upset with the way things are.... Both wisdom and prophecy are abiding and complementary facets of love's integral response to the world as it is. There is a time for saying yes and a time for saying no. While a mature wisdom can save prophecy from sterile bitterness, an authentic prophetic spirit can preserve wisdom from shallowness and evasion. "
Tom Clarke

"THE RIGHT TO MARRY whoever one wishes is an elementary human right compared to which 'the right to attend an integrated school, the right to sit where one pleases on a bus, the right to go into any hotel or recreation area or place of amusement, regardless of one's skin or color or race' are minor indeed. Even political rights, like the right to vote, and nearly all other rights enumerated in the Constitution, are secondary to the inalienable human rights to 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness' proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence; and to this category the right to home and marriage unquestionably belongs." -
Hannah Arendt, Dissent, Winter 1959.