Welcome login | signup
Language en es fr
OccupyForum

Forum Post: Words for the Movement

Posted 12 years ago on Dec. 6, 2011, 11:38 a.m. EST by Truthcipher (62)
This content is user submitted and not an official statement

He drew a circle that shut me out-

Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout.

But love and I had the wit to win;

We drew a circle that took him in.

6 Comments

6 Comments


Read the Rules
[-] 1 points by ZenDogTroll (13032) from South Burlington, VT 12 years ago

That is beautiful.

Expand on that.

We drew a circle that took him in.

What happened after that?

[-] 1 points by RedJazz43 (2757) 12 years ago

The thing is to see what happens when you actually do that. Appeal to people's better nature. I've seen it work with people with mental illness, with felons, drug addicts, alcoholics. Many conservatives are religious. Appeal to the example of Jesus. It doesn't always work but it works more and more the more you learn how to do it.

[-] 1 points by ZenDogTroll (13032) from South Burlington, VT 12 years ago

Jesus was a liberal, and a political dissident.

More, he subdued an empire, and subverted a symbol of terror and oppression into a symbol of peace and of hope.

I find that quite remarkable.

[-] 1 points by Truthcipher (62) 12 years ago

That is the question, or should I say the dream, that calls us at this last hour.

[-] 1 points by RedJazz43 (2757) 12 years ago

Credit your source--Unitarian poet and preacher Edwin Markham

[-] 1 points by Truthcipher (62) 12 years ago

Thanks - I found it from a secondary source that did not credit the original author.