These are the times that try men’s souls. Thomas Paine The skies remain dark this Thanksgiving. The greatest economic recession since the great depression is entering its fourth year. Sixteen percent of workers are either unemployed or Read more »
Thanksgiving, 2009
It has been eight years since we observed Thanksgiving in the dark shadow of 9/11, eight years since I wrote the first of these Freedom Essays expressing my deepest gratitude to those who bequeathed to us the Read more »
Martin Luther King Day, 2005
Justice, justice shall you pursue, that you may live, and inherit the land which the Lord your God gives you. Deuteronomy 16:18-20 On April 12, 1963, eight Alabama religious leaders, Catholic, Protestant and Jewish, issued an appeal Read more »