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Where do the mermaids stand?
The essence of this spirit was captured in a moving speech about tolerance given last year by the student body president of one of your sister colleges. She related the story by Robert Fulghum about a young pastor who, finding himself in charge of some very energetic children, hits upon a game called "Giants, Wizards and Dwarfs." "You have to decide now," the pastor instructed the children, "which you are ... a giant, a wizard or a dwarf?"
At that, a small girl tugging at his pants leg, asked, "But where do the mermaids stand?"
The pastor told her there are no mermaids, and she says, "Oh yes there are," she said. "I am a mermaid."
Now this little girl knew what she was and she was not about to give up on either her identity or the game. She intended to take her place wherever mermaids fit into the scheme of things. Where do the mermaids stand ... All those who are different, those who do not fit the boxes and pigeonholes? "Answer that question," wrote Fulghum, "and you can build a school, a nation, or a whole world."
~~Barbara Bush
Wellesley College Commencement Address, 1990
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6 comments:
Kind of like a pile of nuclear waste lecturing a pile of dirt about cleanliness.
I'm deeply concerned about the decline of democracy and law in the United States....but I really don't want to hear anything that man has to say.
Quote from the article: "One of the hard things when you haven't talked to somebody for more than 30 years is we don't really understand how we sound to them and they don't understand how they sound to us," he said. "We obviously have a way to go until we're speaking the same language."
As in... Libya hasn't been speaking Democracy since... um... ever? Thanks for the lecture, though...
Ah, but don't you understand the need for multilateralism and respect for the values of the world community? After all, Libya only recently held the Chair of the U.N. Human Rights Commission.
A high achievement to aspire to, no doubt. Maybe they should interview Charles Taylor about it, since rumor has it he's hanging out there and is a part of that rich tradition.
Oooh, I guess I don't keep up with the news much. Mr. Taylor is currently on trial and in custody.
Yeah, and they're trying to ship him off to the Netherlands. http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Netherlands-Taylor.html
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