...It''s about my journey going from a liberal civil rights lawyer
who was tinkering with the machine,
and believed that we could somehow get the to the Promised Land
if we just filed the next best lawsuit,
or met the the governor,
or organize the right number of people for the next protest,
to someone who now believes that much more revolutionary change is required,
and it's not simply a political revolution.
A moral and spiritual revolution is also required of us now.
This is what is required of us to begin to treat each person decently,
with respect and love
and by extension,
the earth and all aboard her.
*(Author of "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness",
talking about her new book.)
Photo of Tropical Day Flower and Dragonfly, ©2013 Laine Quinn
Taken at Longwood Gardens, in Delaware.