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[Leo Casey]

What my mother taught me, my dear brother Doug, was
that you never pick a fight, never go around the
schoolyard looking for someone to vent your anger on,
but that you also never walk away from the schoolyard
bully who wants to pick a fight with you. If you don't
defend yourself, than you are sure to become his
regular target. So as Camus put it, I seek to be
neither executioner nor victim.

 
> >Leo Casey wrote:
> > 
> >Some folks just can't pass up an
> >opportunity to make gratuitous personal insults,
> >like
> >school yard bullies, and I find that the best way
> >to
> >handle that is to give it right back.

  
> Thereby perpetuating the rhythm of the schoolyard.
> Didn't your mother 
> tell you that just because all the other boys are
> doing it, that 
> doesn't mean it's right?

 
Leo Casey
United Federation of Teachers
260 Park Avenue South
New York, New York 10010-7272 (212-598-6869)

 
Power concedes nothing without a demand.
It never has, and it never will.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate
agitation are men who want crops without plowing the
ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning.
They want the ocean without the awful roar of its
waters.
-- Frederick Douglass --

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