“When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry, count to one hundred.”
If only we followed the advice of the Founding Fathers.
Thomas Jefferson, who expressed this sentiment, knew first-hand how politics can lead to indignation. Today, one glance at cable news or Twitter affirms that we too are accustomed to an angry politics.
What Jefferson also understood, and what I am worried we too often forget, is that anger in politics is to be avoided and tempered, not embraced and weaponized.
Showing posts with label Rev. Martin Luther King. Show all posts
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Sunday, September 30, 2018
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