Taking a Stand (epigraph 1)

Maybe we have to take a stand. Maybe that’s what it means to get involved in politics. You have to declare. You have to talk about what people should do.

(Robinson, Kim Stanley. Fifty Degrees Below. New York: Random House, 2005. 249)

I picked up this postcard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum some time ago. Between my recent visit to the Idaho Anne Frank Human Rights Memorial and coming across this quotation in Fifty Degrees Below, now felt like just the right time to share it.

I hope that I remember to take away from this all that it's not enough to "think" or "feel" a certain way if those are accompanied by ACTION. As The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force says, "ACTION is HOT." But really, it's more than just that, it's the only thing that can bring about change.