Final Entry

Maybe I'm just an idealist..but I really think our society sucks.
There are so many wrongs being committed, and nobody is even batting an eye.
What good will it do if we scream out...if people just drown out our screams by pumping cheerful ignorance into their ears via I-pods, televisions, and other conveniences?

I'm tired of the excuses.
I'm tired of the laziness.
DO SOMETHING DAMMIT.

How can you look into the eyes of a child who is forced to work hard labor instead of go to school....and then just look away unaffected?
How can you witness the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer..and then just look away unaffected?
How can you see people being discrimated and hated wrongfully...and then just look away unaffected?
How can you witness migrant workers [and their children] being paid fractions of the profits their work is making...and then just look away unaffected?
How can you see everything that's wrong..and then just look away unaffected?

"If you don't stand for something

you'll fall for anything"

WAKE UP PEOPLE.
STOP THE IGNORANCE.
WAKE THE HELL UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Why the Rich...

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Welcome to America.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJpyskHMwRs

Black Eyed Peas- Where is the Love?

Position of Poverty

Nobody deserves to live in poverty.
Everybody needs help some time or another.
Why can't we all offer a helping hand to someone who needs it?
When did our society turn from humanistic loving people to capitalistic selfish baboons?
Why are we letting the problems in our country get worse?
When did we stop caring and instead choose to fake ignorance about the issues that are screaming out at us for help?
How can we not help?!
Why aren't we helping?!?!?!?!?!!?

Harvest of Shame

It's sad to think that our own citizens of this country are suffering.

What happened to America being the land of opportunity?

When did it turn into being the land of cheap unfair labor for our hard working migrant workers?

We now offer stained matresses and disgustingly embarassing living quarters to our workers?

We now have children as young as like 10 working in the fields instead of going to school?

The majority of people really have no idea what's really going on?

Seriously America?

Let's wake the hell up.

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Letter from Birmingham Jail

Exactly the same.

Color has no influnce on character.

Color has no influence on virtue.

Color has no influence on beauty.

Color has no influence on potential.

COLOR HAS NO INFLUENCE ON ANYTHING.

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The Lessons of Nonviolence

You may say that I'm a dreamer

But I'm not the only one

I hope someday you'll join us

And the world will be as one

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Stolen Childhoods

This is not a childhood

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This is exactly what childhood should be

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We all deserve a childhood.

We need to unite to steal the lost childhoods back.

Stop child labor.

http://www.stolenchildhoods.org/

Thoughts from Tao-te Ching

Three things will last forever- faith, hope, and love- and the greatest of these is love.

-1Corinthians 13:13

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Ethics of Compassion

We are all created equal.

Spread warmth not coldness.

Share hugs not disregard.

Spread love not hate.
Spread smiles not frowns.
Spread laughter not happiness.

Life is too short to be mean.

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The Story of An Hour

Is this why you got married?

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Declaration of Sentiments & Resolutions

Don't doubt us.
Don't look down on us.
Don't question us.

You will be faced with the strongest opposition you will ever witness.

"Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned."
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The Declaration of Independence

Happiness?
What is happiness?
What is this happiness you pursue?


Happiness was being wrapped up in his arms.
Happiness was holding his hand and never wanting to let go.
Happiness was putting your ear to his chest to listen to his heart beat.
Happiness was a kiss so wonderful, even words couldn’t convey its greatness.
Happiness was any moment spent with him.
Happiness was ignorance.
Happiness was impulse.
Happiness was a bunch of lies that you completely fell for.

Happiness was having an aunt who loved your unconditionally and who you could be completely honest with.

Happiness was using that aunt's house as your sancturary a weekend out of every month.

Happiness was believing that she could beat the cancer.
Happiness was driving so fast you thought your engine would explode any minute.
Happiness was a deep inhale of a toxic cigarette.
Happiness was lots of nights your don’t remember and don’t want to remember.
Happiness was a razor blade in your hand and bleeding cuts on your wrist.

Happiness is laughter.
Happiness is knowledge.
Happiness is acceptance.
Happiness is realizing that you’re gonna be okay after all.
Happiness is finally loving yourself (or at least trying).
Happiness is being able to get through a broken heart (or at least trying).
Happiness is feeling beautiful.
Happiness is finding God.
Happiness is finally hearing your parents say "I'm proud of you" (even just once).
Happiness is an impromptu road trip.
Happiness is sand between your toes.
Happiness is being on the Dean's List.
Happiness is buying a fishie to be your new boyfriend.
Happiness is naming that fishie “Winchester Hooligan Bond”.
Happiness is watching a sunset.
Happiness is blowing bubbles and playing skip-it.
Happiness is waking up to wet puppy dog kisses on your face.
Happiness is a new designer handbag that you really can't afford.
Happiness is going to the park to play on the swings.
Happiness is laughing so hard, soda comes out of your nose.
Happiness is sliding fuzzy soft slippers on your sore feet at the end of a long day.
Happiness is waking up to the sound of birds singing outside your window in the morning.
Happiness is being greeted at the door by the smell of home cookin'.
Happiness is a hot cup of tea on a snowy day.

Happiness is accepting that your aunt is gone (or at least trying).

Happiness is knowing that you'll see her again one day.
Happiness is finally looking forward to the life God has for you.

Happiness will be being called "Dr."
Happiness will be looking into the eyes of the one you love and saying “I do”.
Happiness will be giving birth.
Happiness will be being called “mommy”.
Happiness will be a surprise back rub when you need it most.

Happiness will be being reunited with your aunt and everyone you love in Heaven.
Happiness will be having "I love you" whispered in your ear (and actually believing it this time).

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Thinking In Education

Why is it that the educational system today that tells us not to think?Why do they find it necessary to spoon feed us information that we're not really learning?Why do they find it necessary to give us information wrapped up in a neat little bow of convenience and easiness, make us memorize it, test us on it, and give us a nice little grade on our report cards?

That is not how we learn.

We need to struggle through the learning process in order to actually learn and make the knowledge our own. Unfortunately, struggles bring pain and discomfort, and 99% of the population would prefer to live ignorant comfortable lives rather than struggle. They don't care whether they're learning or not, they just care about graduating with a degree so that they can get a salary and keep up with the rest of the materialistic fools of our society. No, university is no longer about learning, it's about a degree. (I.e. -if it was truly about learning, there would be more academic scholarships instead of sports scholarships)

University has turned into a time of hanging out with "bffs", nights of drunkenness that are remembered only through the pictures on your digital camera, and skating through classes hung-over with grades only good enough so you can graduate. It's no longer about the learning.

And the few that actually value their education? What about them? They're doomed. They're the outcasts. They're the suck-ups. They're the Socratic gadflies of the twenty-first century, and they're doomed to fail. They will be taunted, talked about, and hated. Why? Because they show the degree driven people how they should be. And nobody wants to hear they're wrong, so the intellectual will be pointed at frantically, and have "TRAITOR" yelled at them, so that the majority can take the heat off of themselves. The majority does not want to have to defend the perfect little front that they put up.

And what about the future? That too, is doomed. We're breeding generations of more cute little materialistic babies that will follow in the footsteps of my jaded generation.The majority will always be ignorant.

The majority will always value pleasure over knowledge. The majority will always doom the intellectual. The intellectual will always have to find solace in knowledge and their minds.

The world will never be a place for intellectuals.