Around The Time I Turned 30, I

The Hope For A Messiah Puts Too Much On That One Person. And You Think That Absolves You Of Personal Responsibility And You Don't Have To Act Because That Person Will Do It For You.

I Cannot Find Words To Express The Depth Of My Loss Or Outrage About What's Happening To This Country. I Don't Know If I Can Find The Words For It, But If This Country Ever Recovers, It Will Not Be In My Lifetime. If I Were Elected President, The First Thing I Would Do Would Be To Set Up A Department Of Restoring The Bill Of Rights. I Would Have 10,000 People Working There.

The Rich Are Different Than You And Me: They Have More Money And They Have More Power.

The Decimation Of Lebanon Was Showing Up In Chicago As A Series Of Restaurants And Little Shops, Just As The Destruction Of Vietnam Had Been Visible Here A Decade Earlier. If You Never Read The News But Ate Out A Lot You Should Be Able To Tell Who Was Getting Beaten Up Around The World.

And The Fury In My Community Was Just Staggering. The Young Priests In The Parish Were Behind The Message. The Older Priests Weren't Necessarily, But They All Followed The Orders Of The Cardinal And Read The Letter. Every Sunday, 2,000 People Came To Mass At That Parish. The Following Sunday, The Attendance Dropped To 200, And Never Recovered.