"Information is everything; it enlarges your intellect and that guides you.
"The job is to follow the truth and report where it leads you!
"Right and wrong is not relative. Empathy is fine but kindness and sympathy do not change the facts and conscience is everything!
"Leaders are suppose to do the right thing and we should back up the president when he does the right thing; but drop him when he doesn't.
"The WHY is the most important question-not that something happened- but WHY did it happen?
"Somewhere along the way America lost its soul.
"People have to rise up but Americans have become so passive and power overwhelmingly abusive."
I responded, "So how do we fix this situation?"
Ms. Thomas replied, "It's being done!"
And when I asked Ms. Thomas if she had always wanted to be a journalist, her persistent smile broadened and the gleam in her eyes sparkled with unshed tears as she replied, "When my first article was published in the high school paper and I saw my byline, I was hooked!"
I shot back, "I had a similar but opposite experience!"
I explained that when I was a child, my dream was to grow up and become Brenda Starr, the red headed, ace investigative journalist and star reporter for the metropolitan daily, The Flash . The fictional Brenda traveled the world solving mysteries and unearthing scoops and she intuitively knew when somebody was not telling the truth.But when my first assignment for the high school newspaper was edited beyond my recognition but my name was attached, my Irish temper erupted and I immediately confronted the faculty member on the paper and inquired, "Why did you publish an article with my name but with words I did NOT write?"
I was told that it was just standard procedure for the faculty to edit all of the student's work and I replied, "Not mine you don't! I quit!"
Ms. Thomas pointed her finger at me and said, "That's ethics!"
And that comment is the second highest compliment I have ever been paid in my life!
The first remains the one Mordechai Vanunu graced me with when he said, I was always good to remind him of JC/Jesus Christ.
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