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She Really Did (Original Post) sheshe2 Jun 2016 OP
Kick! Squinch Jun 2016 #1
K&R radical noodle Jun 2016 #2
Damn straight Rose Siding Jun 2016 #3
I never read that. sheshe2 Jun 2016 #4
"The art of making possible" NastyRiffraff Jun 2016 #6
KICK-n-REC!!!! nt MADem Jun 2016 #5

Rose Siding

(32,629 posts)
3. Damn straight
Thu Jun 9, 2016, 06:39 PM
Jun 2016

And her heart's been in it for 45 years. From a poem she read as the conclusion to her college commencement address in 1969-

We have no need of false revolutions


That's just the first line but hear it

We have no need of false revolutions
In a world where categories tend to tyrannize our minds
And hang our wills up on narrow pegs.
It is well at every given moment to seek the limits in our lives.
And once those limits are understood
To understand that limitations no longer exist.
Earth could be fair. And you and I must be free
Not to save the world in a glorious crusade
Not to kill ourselves with a nameless gnawing pain
But to practice with all the skill of our being
The art of making possible.


Thanks.

http://www.wellesley.edu/events/commencement/archives/1969commencement/studentspeech


I hear her voice, her way of getting things done throughout her career all wrapped up in those words.

sheshe2

(98,443 posts)
4. I never read that.
Thu Jun 9, 2016, 06:43 PM
Jun 2016

Thank you so much for posting RS.

K&R her words and your post. Thank you.

NastyRiffraff

(12,448 posts)
6. "The art of making possible"
Thu Jun 9, 2016, 07:29 PM
Jun 2016

Oh, yes. She has shown a few generations of women and girls that art, and her legacy as the first woman President of the United States will live on for future generations.

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