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Sometimes blogging like this it's hard to stay optimistic about things. To stay hopeful.

And then, every once in awhile, you read a story about a group of people who refused to give up, who did everything they could do - literally everything - and moved mountains.

The 9/11 families are just one example of that.

Is the bill we passed perfect? I doubt it.

But without their efforts, this never would have happened. Nor would this. Or this.

Makes me think of something I once heard Bill Moyers say...

"It's just a fact: Democracy doesn't work without citizen activism and participation, starting at the community. Trickle down politics doesn't work much better than trickle down economics. It's also a fact that civilization happens because we don't leave things to other people. What's right and good doesn't come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it – as if the cause depends on you, because it does. Allow yourself that conceit - to believe that the flame of democracy will never go out as long as there's one candle in your hand."
-- Bill Moyers

We the people.

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