Nelson Mandela, like all great men, isn't the saint that we think he is. He has his faults, like all of us. But that quote up above - I learned it from Oxfam.

 

Coldplay at their mediocre concert in Hartford back in August handed out and Oxfam pamphlet containing the Mandela wisdom. And I've had that Mandela quote on my apartment wall, next to the bathroom door, for months. When I first read it, it grabbed me and throttled me. So simple, so much sense. So difficult.

 

So in honor of the economic rights as enunciated in the Universal Declaration, signed 60 years ago today, I post the fist in glove. May we someday see the end of hunger and material inequality. An ideal we may never see, but one worth chasing.

 

Thanks for stopping by. Peace, KK

 

P.S. - Anniversaries are the easiest way to make posts during exams. Trust and Estates down, Admin and Education law left, plus one paper. Posting will be thin until 12/19.

 

P.P.S. - Be wary of too many rights: The rights revolution has contributed in its own way to the atrophy of vital local governments and political parties, and to the disdain for politics that is now so prevalent in the American scene. From Mary Ann Glendon.

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