November 15, 2003
The whole history of the progress
of human liberty shows that
all concessions yet made
to her august claims
have been born of earnest struggle. . . .
If there is no struggle,
there is no progress.
Those who profess to favor freedom,
and yet deprecate agitation,
are men who want crops
without plowing up the ground,
they want rain without thunder and lightning.
They want the ocean without
the awful roar of its many waters.
~Frederick Douglass~
Captain, my religious belief teaches me
to feel as safe in battle as in bed.
God has fixed the time for my death.
I do not concern myself about that,
but to be always ready,
no matter when it overtakes me.
~Thomas Jonathan (Stonewall) Jackson ~
song playing....Moonlight Serenade