SUNDAY THOUGHTS: HOPE

“With patient and firm determination, we will press on until every valley of despair is exalted to new peaks of hope; until every mountain of pride and irrationality is made low by the leveling process of humility and compassion; until the rough places of injustice are transformed into a smooth plane of equality of opportunity; and until the crooked places of prejudice are transformed by the straightening process of bright-eyed wisdom.” ~The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it, and to work for it, and to fight for it. Hope is the belief that destiny will not be written for us, but by us--by the men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is; who have the courage to remake the world as it should be.” 
~President Barack H. Obama