After Sweden’s election result yesterday many thoughts come to mind - one of Europe’s biggest xenophobic parties, now in government. Some years ago one man had a dream, yet that is not the society, nor Sweden nor Europe, nor the world I see today. Where are the leaders that dare to dream big today, and that can stand up to once more say “ All, here and now. We want all of our rights, we want them here, and we want them now. I am not impressed by my Swedish leaders of today, and I don’t like the kind of courage they display. - a governmental party – screaming, showing their finger for the whole world to see in rage - I was glad to see it was only one of the nine. And get me right I am angry to, but I choose not to show it in that way. It only makes me wonder what change they really seek to obtain. Im looking out to see the leader who dares to stand up, stand tall and yet with the courage to stand with wisdom and knowledge in one hand, and the power of non-violence in the other, yet without stepping down Dr. King about the power of nonviolence say “ We’ve come to see that this method is not a weak method, for it’s the strong man who can stand up amid opposition, who can stand up amid violence being inflicted upon him and not retaliate with violence. You see, this method has a way of disarming the opponent. It exposes his moral defenses. It weakens his morale, and at the same time it works on his conscience, and he just doesn’t know what to do. If he doesn’t beat you, wonderful. If he beats you, you develop the quiet courage of accepting blows without retaliating. If he doesn’t put you in jail, wonderful. Nobody with any sense likes to go to jail. But if he puts you in jail, you go in that jail and transform it from a dungeon of shame to a haven of freedom and human dignity. And even if he tries to kill you, (He can’t kill you) you’ll develop the inner conviction that there are some things so dear, some things so precious, some things so eternally true, that they are worth dying for. What are we as a society, as a nation, as a people ready to die for – here, today now? I wonder?
Posted on: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 13:50:12 +0000
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