a fault line runs through every society, through every community, through every human heart.
on one side is obedience; on the other, freedom.
on one side is cowardice; on the other, compassion.
on one side is despair; on the other, action.
sometimes the boundaries shift as gains are made or lost—but however things appear, that fault line is always there.
most everything you can read nowadays is published from one side of this divide.
this magazine hails from the other.
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a person who has a sense that her life is meaningful and her destiny is in her hands is in fundamental ways more alive than a person who does not.
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the question is—always is, no matter who is dying or killing, no matter what is said on television—what we can do ourselves, what we make of our lives, how each of us interacts with global events in our daily decisions. our opponents are those who would hinder our efforts and obscure this question for their own ends, who would rather rule over a world of passive spectators wracked by terror and war than take a place among equals acting to correct the injustices that provide justifications for politicians and terrorists alike. // rolling thunder, issue one
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