Wise Words From - President Obama : "Not just awareness, but action. Not just hashtags, but votes."

[kpete]

You can be completely right, and you still are going to have to engage folks who disagree with you. If you think that the only way forward is to be as uncompromising as possible, you will feel good about yourself, you will enjoy a certain moral purity, but you’re not going to get what you want. And if you don’t get what you want long enough, you will eventually think the whole system is rigged. And that will lead to more cynicism, and less participation, and a downward spiral of more injustice and more anger and more despair. And that's never been the source of our progress. That's how we cheat ourselves of progress.

You have to go through life with more than just a passion for change – you have to have strategy. Not just awareness, but action. Not just hashtags, but votes. Change requires more than righteous anger. To bring about structural change, lasting change, awareness is not enough. It requires changes in law, changes in customs.


http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2016/05/wise-words-from-prez.html
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/obama-urges-howard-university-graduates-be-politically-engaged-n569896

[KPN]

1. That's why I'm voting for Bernie!!!

This week and in the GE!!!

[silvershadow]

3. Awesome! nt

[Csainvestor]

2. Obama just loves the tpp

He just loves the billionaire class. I don't think he cares as much for the working class.

[earthshine]

4. I don't believe anything he says anymore.

So, all the roads he has walked in life have led him to the point where he pushes the TPP and similar trade agreements with every last bit of political capital.

This and the insurance-based ACA will be his failed legacies.

This video shows clips of Obama trying to sell the TPP. It's obvious from his body language that he does not believe what he is selling.

[hollowdweller]

5. Simpson Bowles was reaching out right??