<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=388518" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Notes From Freedom's Heart</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">i spend a lot of my time writing<br>about freedom, dignity, and equality....<br>using a lot of different forms, just<br>trying to be heard....<br>but i've come to the understanding<br>that whether i write it, sing i, play it<br>on guitar, paint it, dance it, or write<br>it on signs and march it.....<br>doesnt matter! <br>what matters is whether i live it! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">when i can look into another human being's<br>eyes and not see color, gender, religious<br>or political idealogies, or sexual preference...<br>when i know that their mistakes and failures<br>are my own... that there is no difference <br>between us... that we have the same needs<br>and desires... and that we need each other.....</div><div style="margin:10px 0">when i'm willing to listen, to offer a hand up, willing<br>to work and walk beside of (not in front of!) ....</div><div style="margin:10px 0">when my thoughts, words, and actions reflect a deep<br>reverence and respect for all that lives....<br>when my choices validate humanity.....</div><div style="margin:10px 0">when i can see without judging... when i'm<br>willing to speak the truth at all costs....<br>to give all that i have, and all that i am, <br>regardless of the risk....<br>when my own life matters less to me than<br>the lives of those i come in contact with....<br>when i'm willing to stand up for what's right, <br>for compassion, and for hope... even if it<br>costs me my own life....</div><div style="margin:10px 0">then, and only then, i will have become<br>the poem i've tried all of my life to write...<br>then and only then, i will have become<br>fully human.... and will have answered the call<br>that we all have....</div><div style="margin:10px 0">will i continue to write? yes! <br>but day by day, moment by moment....<br>i'll keep working! <br>will you join me?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Eric+Cockrell">Eric Cockrell</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=388518" data-title="Notes From Freedom's Heart de Eric Cockrell" data-description="i spend a lot of my time writing about freedom, dignity, and equality.... using a lot of different forms, just trying to be heard.... but i've come to the understanding that whether i write it, sing i, play it on guitar, paint it, dance it, or wri..."></div> </div> </div>

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