"How many of you here are doing something? How many of you are already volunteering?"
Approximately a third of the room raised their hands. Deidre nodded and continued, "All of you sit down and to all of you still standing, raise your hand and repeat after me: I know it's right, I know it's fair, I know in my heart we can change the world with my help. I will spend the next 50 days making my voice heard."
As time allowed for only two questions and I had come prepared with a copy of my September 13, 2008 article, Questions for the Christian 'Quartet' Pursuing the White House
I seized the opportunity to make my voice heard with Congresswoman Maloney. I admitted to being media [technically I am a citizen journalist] and was allowed in the 'back room' for a few minutes before the two speakers traveled onto Gainesville.I expressed that I would like to support Obama, reiterated what I had already told Ms. Hall and then I asked the congresswoman if she could get a copy of my Memoirs in Occupied Territory to Joe Biden and a copy of KEEP HOPE ALIVE to Obama which I inscribed with a quote from St. Augustine:
"HOPE has two children. The first is ANGER at the way things are. The second is COURAGE to DO SOMETHING about it."
I gave the Congresswoman a copy of my article and she told me she would read it and get back to me.
Jesus called politicians foxes and I have been to the D.C. offices of both my congressmen, so, I don't think I will hear from her; but I have hope that I will, because I know in my heart we have it in our power to begin the world again.-Tom Paine
That is, if we all do something.
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