Thoughts on Hope

"With us there's a saying, "La esperanza muere ultima." Hope dies last. If you lose hope, you lose everything."

Jessie de la Cruz, retired migrant farm worker, quoted in Studs Terkel, Hope Dies Last.


"The differences between black folk and white folk are not blood or color, and the ties that bind us are deeper than those that separate us. The common road of hope, which we all traveled, has brought us into a stronger kinship than any words, laws, or legal claims."

Richard Wright ,12 Million Black Voices


"When hope dies, the killing begins. Hopelessness and brutality are just two sides of the same coin."

Jurgen Moltmann, In the End - The Beginning: The Life of Hope.


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