IT ONLY TAKES ONE
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From: Bettye Johnson
Date: Sunday, January 28, 2007, 5:01 PM
Subject: It Only Takes One
ID: 255660

First I want to thank Clare Morgan for all her alerts and her passion to make a difference in this world. At times it is a challenge to keep one's perspective and once in awhile we need an uplifting thought. The following are 3 that are uplifting and thought provoking.

ALL IT TAKES IS LOVE http://weareone-love.net/ =======

Marge Piercy poem Tuesday, January 16th, 2007 The veteran broadcast journalist Bill Moyers spoke on Friday before 3,500 at the opening of the National Conference on Media Reform in Memphis .

Bill Moyers: And in case you do get lonely, I'll leave you with this. As my plane was circling Memphis the other day, I looked out across those vast miles of fertile soil that once were plantations, watered by the Mississippi River, and the sweat from the brow of countless men and women, who had been forced to live somebody else's story. I thought about how in time, with a lot of martyrs, they rose up, one here, then two, then many, forging a great movement that awakened America's conscience and brought us closer to the elusive but beautiful promise of the Declaration of Independence. As we made our last approach, the words of a Marge Piercy poem began to form in my head, and I remembered all over again why I was coming and why you were here: What can they do to you? Whatever they want. They can set you up, they can bust you, they can break your fingers, they can burn your brain with electricity, blur you with drugs till you can t walk, can't remember, they can take your child, wall up your lover. They can do anything you can't blame them from doing. How can you stop them? Alone, you can fight, you can refuse, you can take what revenge you can but they roll over you. But two people fighting back to back can cut through a mob, a snake-dancing file can break a cordon, an army can meet an army. Two people can keep each other sane, can give support, conviction, love, massage, hope, sex. Three people are a delegation, a committee, a wedge. With four you can play bridge and start an organisation. With six you can rent a whole house, eat pie for dinner with no seconds, and hold a fund raising party. A dozen make a demonstration. A hundred fill a hall. A thousand have solidarity and your own newsletter; ten thousand, power and your own paper; a hundred thousand, your own media; ten million, your own country. It goes on one at a time, it starts when you care to act, it starts when you do it again after they said no, it starts when you say We and know who you mean, and each day you mean one more. Thank you. --Bill Moyers, January 16, 2007 at the National Conference on Media Reform in Memphis ================================== A COCKATOO LOVE STORY

Now this is a "Love Story" of all love story's. Absolutely amazing what goes on in Nature.................... There are a total of 4 pages of photo's . This is really awesome & worth looking at! (Keep clicking on 'Next Page' at bottom of each one.)

http://www.juliusbergh.com/cocky

Bettye Johnson www.magdalenescrolls.com