Felix Dodds comments on sustainable development, coffee & life

I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity. But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself in exile in his own land. So we have come here today to dramatize an shameful condition. In a se...

“Each time a man (person) stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.” Bobby Kennedy I have been thinking of writing a blog on trust and how our institutions and their leaders whether they were the politicians, the bankers, industry, the media and now even the Non-Government Organizations have lost their way with the general public. It seems like every day there is one scandal after another. Of course, this is a generalization but its clear that our democrat way of life is under threat. Democracy has always been challenged through history sometimes advancing and then other times retreating or developing. On the right to vote we moved from freehold landed property owners to all men, then all women and then all rac...