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Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
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reformers
trailblazers
disregard
innovation
ignorance
persecution
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Voltaire |
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In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky -- her grand old woods -- her fertile fields -- her beautiful rivers -- her mighty lakes, and star-crowned mountains. But my rapture is soon checked, my joy is soon turned to mourning. When I remember that all is cursed with the infernal actions of slaveholding, robbery and wrong, -- when I remember that with the waters of her noblest rivers, the tears of my brethren are borne to the ocean, disregarded and forgotten, and that her most fertile fields drink daily of the warm blood of my outraged sisters, I am filled with unutterable loathing.
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wrong
disregard
robbery
slaveholding
curse
loathing
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Frederick Douglass |
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According to the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, the definition of the word 'rebellion' is 'an act or a show of defiance toward an authority or established convention. Extensions of the expression include to fly in the face of danger and to fly in the face of providence, both of which carry a sense of reckless or impetuous disregard for safety.' Because we did not grow up with our fathers, we became reckless with our lives and disregarded the lives of others as well. Therefore, the problem is not the gangs, so to speak; rather, it's the conditions that create them. It is the dismantling of our homes and marriages that create the right conditions for gangs to flourish. If homes could be put back together or prevented from falling apart, then these symptoms could be, root cause eradicated.
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rebellion
marriage
family
eradicate
right-conditions
single-parent-homes
symptoms
two-parent-homes
strong-communities
gang-prevention
rebellion-raiders
fatherless-homes
single-mothers
broken-homes
root-causes
disregard
reckless
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Drexel Deal |