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H2O Man

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15. Even more,

Reply to Stonepounder (Reply #13)

Tue Dec 18, 2012, 02:09 PM

Dec 2012

we need more people -- many, many more people -- to get in touch with that potential that, for lack of a better term, can be called "our internal MLK." Leaders are indeed necessary, but it is the people standing with that leader who represent the real power to institute change.

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The KC Star was just unreadable this morning. [View all] leftyladyfrommo Dec 2012 OP

Anger, bullying, fighting, violence, cruelty....the source of our problems. CurtEastPoint Dec 2012 #1

Isn't that what leads to massacres... IthinkThereforeIAM Dec 2012 #10

that's heaven05 Dec 2012 #11

We need to be fierce warriors for tolerance. Warren Stupidity Dec 2012 #2

The Peace Party Octafish Dec 2012 #3

The militarization of our society, including the militarization of most police depts, byeya Dec 2012 #12

if more people would turn off TV there would be less fear; KurtNYC Dec 2012 #4

I never watch Local femrap Dec 2012 #19

"If it bleeds, it leads" FarCenter Dec 2012 #5

I am working on just letting go of the news. leftyladyfrommo Dec 2012 #6

And a couple of days ago in Topeka Kansas, two police officers were short at close range in the head RC Dec 2012 #7

OMFG! iamelisabethparker Dec 2012 #8

K&R G_j Dec 2012 #9

We need another Martin Luther King, Jr. Stonepounder Dec 2012 #13

Even more, H2O Man Dec 2012 #15

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Where is the Peace Train? Here comes the Peace Train. leftyladyfrommo Dec 2012 #17

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