“A house divided against itself cannot stand.”Abraham Lincoln
Springfield, Illinois, 1858
"One of the things that simply spending time with 20-30 people does is it breaks down some of the caricatures that people may have...so you learn that you can disagree with people without being disagreeable."
Grover Norquist, President, Americans for Tax Reform
"We've wandered into a political region in which partisan conflict has become more intense than in almost any other period in American history. The transpartisan movement is beginning to foster so much communication across the partisan boundaries that the boundaries themselves are beginning to be much more porous."
Al Gore, Former Vice President
When I learned that prison officials plan for new prisons based on 4th grade reading levels in California, I became angry. If prison officials know about this, why don't the rest of us, and what can be done?
Active involvement with local schools is essential, especially reading programs which form the basis for all other learning.