You're Not Obligated To Win. You're Obligated

I Grew Up In A Very Religious Family And It Is The Motivating Force To Every Thing I Do. I Am Fortunate To Have Had Adults All Around Me Who Really Lived Their Faith, In Helping Other People And Doing The Best You Can Do. The World Wasn't So Wonderful Back Then, With Segregated Rule In The South. But We Were Never Hopeless And We Never Despaired Because We Had Adults Out There Struggling With Us, Being There For Us, And Buffering Us.

Don't Just Dream About Grandiose Acts Of Doing Good. Every Day Do Small Ones, That Add Up Over Time To Positive Patterns.

There Should Not Be One New Dime In Tax Breaks For Millionaires And Billionaires As Long As Millions Of Children In America Are Poor, Hungry, Uneducated And Without Health Coverage.

We Must Not, In Trying To Think About How We Can Make A Big Difference, Ignore The Small Daily Differences We Can Make Which, Over Time, Add Up To Big Differences That We Often Cannot Foresee.

If We Think We Have Ours And Don't Owe Any Time Or Money Or Effort To Help Those Left Behind, Then We Are A Part Of The Problem Rather Than The Solution To The Fraying Social Fabric That Threatens All Americans And The Very Dream That Is America.