We are excited to share with you our first End of Year Report!
Thank you to all of our NCEJN family and network, and especially to the communities we serve. We are privileged to work alongside you in building a better world.
In our hope for a better tomorrow in the new year, we leave you with words from Howard Zinn. He wrote: “To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places – and there are so many – where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.”
Here’s to living in defiance of the bad, grounded in the history of kindness and courage!
