Sunday, February 7, 2010

PAYING ATTENTION

We cannot, by total alliance on law, escape the duty to judge right and wrong. There are good laws and there are bad laws, and it conforms to the highest traditions of a free society to offer resistance to bad laws. and to disobey them. Alexander Bickel 1924-1974

 

Paying Attention

Give me laws and I'll obey them

If my heart tells me it's right

Give me bad laws, I'll fight to change them

With all my mortal might

Laws are made by mortal men

Some upstanding, some not so

So evil laws may trickle in

Before we even know

It's our right and duty to judge them

And our duty to weed them out

That's what a free democracy

Like ours is all about

Marian

February 7, 2010

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