Anger is not unQuaker, bitterness is. Anger does not pre suppose hate. I am quite angrey that this nation takes most of what the world produces and uses it to support fewer and fewer, and rewards the hard work of the most of its people, well, not enough to get the minimun needs of life. If you read about the fall of the Roman empire, after overextending itself, Rome could no longer provide the basic needs of civil society. It is time we got angery enough to make change. Now, this does not mean angrey enough to set up a gilliteen in the middle of central park, but angery enough to vote for a government which puts the needs of the common worker first. I remember when I was in my twenties refering to Irish teath, from the lack of health care Irish folks showed, it was an aspect of neglect long seen as the mark of the immagrant community in Irish New York, now it is the native New Yorker who can't afford to go to the dentist. I know, my wife and I are in that number. Anger does not mean go out and shoot someone, or stop loving the wrong doer, don't parents get angery at their kids... now don't lie about it, sure you do, we are the parents of our government in this republic and we have been neglectful and now are paying the price in 18,000 a year dead, think of that in a decade that is more death than a the Viet Nam war.
Cheeers
Larry