Thursday, March 15, 2018

Quote Of The Day: Be A Nuisance


Marjory Stoneman Douglas (1890 - 1998) was an environmentalist, feminist activist and journalist. The high school named in her honor was the site of the massacre on February 14. Since then, a quote from Ms. Douglas is becoming the unofficial credo of the #enough movement against gun violence:
“Be a nuisance when it counts. Do your part to inform and stimulate the public to join your action.  Be depressed, discouraged, and disappointed at failure and the disheartening effects of ignorance, greed, corruption and bad politics - but never give up.”
On Saturday, March 24 in Washington, DC, many thousands of young people and their supporters will be a nuisance to politicians and their paymasters, the National Rifle Rampage Association who consistently block common sense gun safety legislation so that the sale of guns is uninterrupted. They're the coming generation of voters, and they won't give up.