Martin Luther King and Ghandi must be turning in their graves as all their efforts for equality still struggle to take seed. African Americans slaughtered by the police. Hindu fanatics excluding Muslims … does bring into question why India wishes to annex Kashmir considering it is a Muslim region. First Nation people far too many missing or rotting in institutions.
I can hear both of them clearly crying “the rock cries out to us today, you may stand upon me but do not hide your face”. Time that these quicksands of double standards were addressed realistically to embrace the diverse and wondrous world that we are … let those seeds fall into fertile ground. Stop burying our heads in the sand.
Take heed of their enlightened words for we are all one. Nobody should have to hide their face, their race or their stance!
aroused 
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These are inspirational words as my wife and I travel to Southern India on Wednesday.
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Modi has really set India back centuries, undoing ALL of Ghandis work ….
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Hear hear!
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A very sad, continued, reality.
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yes deeply sad Elizabeth!
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The sickness in the minds of few, while sitting on the powerful chairs of govt and more, is certainly the most venomous of all.
Those who possess it are certainly doomed to poison a whole nation with their twisted and corrupt mind.
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and they do that … but they can only win if the good do nothing! So we must keep calling them out 🙂
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Agree with you. We still are struggling with the same causes. We might have lived many years but still our thinking has not changed. The rulers still rule the way they want to.
Hope is always alive but when is always a question.
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This is such sad reality of recent times. Our politicians want us to move back in time instead of making our world a better place to live.
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yes but they are bought out by the one percenters … so the masses need to speak up and say “this is not good enough”
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Very well said! Sadly it is a continual reality, and not a flash fiction.
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I think we fear more what we may loose that all that could be gained.
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we lose more by not embracing diversity ..
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“……all men are created equal …” We just can’t seem to get the hang of it, can we? How long will it take?
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The ever turning perpetual wheel of repeat, you express so well the frustration I carry, and this resonates so strongly.
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It does feel like we keep going over the same things…
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Politicians and their play in our World where nothing and no one exists except A Human Being experiencing Herself or Himself in this body but they want to break us all by dividing us into religions. Gandhiji and Martin Luther fought for this only, Kate but our politicians today have not understood them and keep on unnecessary creating hatred and tensions. But this time our people have stood by and are not going to bend down by our Politicians.
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Differences are to be celebrated and embraced, for they make us unique. We are who we are and be accepted for that.
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well presented Kate – sad truths, but truth must be said. all the documenting of their great achievements so lukewarm in the light of reality.
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Exactly! Right on, Kate! This is an important post of remembrance, wisdom, hope, challenge, making positive changes in the future, ETC!
I am grateful for both of those human-beans! And I am VERY grateful for you…for your words that are backed with love and concern for our world!
HUGS!!! 🙂
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I hope they do it. But I doubt it. Greed for power always stops them.
I mean those creating these divisions.
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not sure who you mean by ‘they’ I mean us!
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only if we let them … Modi and these other narcissists need their people to say it’s not good enough!
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Well articulated! We should all be proud of who we are, what we look like, what abilities we have.
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We have more similarities than differences – no matter the comparisons. If only there could be some genuine progress… Excellent post!
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Well done Kate. Three steps forward and two back! The story of our lives.
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You portray the heartbreaking turn of events vividly and passionately. Would that we learn and finally heed the call of those prophets!
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Neither of them could have imagined that the struggles would be so long and painful. Heartbreaking.
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exactly Jane … bet they both thought they had made headways 😦
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They would probably say, “Two steps forward, one step back,” but sometimes it feels like “One step forward, two steps back.” 😥
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Yeah!
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