Hope is a good thing

Thanks Grace, for that glimmer of hope. Hope is a good thing, although not always the most excellent, as the Democrats found out a couple of years ago. You all are probably tired of me saying it, :) but I have always derived a lot of hope from the work of the abolitionists, mostly Quakers. They worked for almost 200 years to abolish slavery, at least in Europe and America. They kept working faithfully, not because they knew they were going to prevail, but because they knew they were right. I found a book about their techniques and I've been reading it, and hey -- we in the peace movement have been using some of the same methods. Talk about hope!