Diane Vogel Ferri’s full-length poetry book is Everything is Rising (Luchador Press). Her latest novel is No Life But This: A Novel of Emily Warren Roebling (Atbosh Media) Her essays have been published in The Cleveland Plain Dealer, Scene Magazine, and Yellow Arrow Journal, among others. Her poems can be found in numerous journals such as Wend Poetry, Blue Heron Review, Rubbertop Review, and Poet Lore. Her previous publications are Liquid Rubies (poetry), The Volume of Our Incongruity (poetry), and The Desire Path (novel). She has done many poetry readings locally. Diane’s essay, “I Will Sing for You” was featured at the Cleveland Humanities Festival in 2018. A former teacher, she holds an M.Ed from Cleveland State University and is a founding member of Literary Cleveland. Her poem, For You, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best of The Net 2023

Friday, January 29, 2010

Coexist XXVIII - In America

In the end it's our ideals, our values that build America, values that allowed us to forge a nation made of of immigrants from every corner of the globe, values that drive our citizens still.

Every day Americans meet their responsibilities to their families and their employers. Time and again, they lend a hand to their neighbors and give back to their country. They take pride in their labor and are generous in spirit.

These aren't Republican values or Democratic values that they're living by, business values or labor values. They're American values.


President Barack Obama

4 comments:

Janie Vogel said...

I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this quote by President Obama!!!!

This should be one of many signature quotes of our current President that should be repeated for generations to come! I don't care if you lean left, right or are an independent.
Please try - for one day - to ease up on the insane spewing of partisan propoganda (on both sides).
Turn off your favorite cable news channel, put down the Editorial page of your newspaper, stop listening to commentators and radio personalities who are paid hundreds of millions of dollars specifically to enrage you about opinions you didn't even know you had...and listen to his message.

THINK FOR YOURSELF, and remember that, no matter what party you lean towards, WE ARE ALL AMERICANS!

Why are we fighting against eachother for what we all want?
Are Republicans' morals, goals and ethics really that different than the Democrats? I don't think so - it's the path that we disagree on.

Why have we forgotten that the path to the original and still-revered American value system regarding the pursuit of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness is completely non-partisian?

Ruth Hull Chatlien said...

What a great quotation.

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Ms Hen's said...

Beautiful.

BettyAnn