I Don't Think You Lead By Pessimism

I Have A Very Personal Interest. I Am A Miami-dade Voter. One Of The Issues Is That My Vote And So Many Other Votes Of Women And African Americans In Florida Are Being Discounted Or Discarded. I Want My Vote To Count.

In Any Grass-roots Campaign, Building An Ongoing Base Of Support Is As Important As Winning The Ultimate Goal.

We Have To Stop This Violence. We Have To Make The Political Nature Of The Violence Clear, That The Violence We Experience In Our Own Homes Is Not A Personal Family Matter, It's A Public And Political Problem. It's A Way That Women Are Kept In Line, Kept In Our Places.

Some Of Us May Just, In One-on-one Conversations With Our Family, With Our Friends, Over The Back Fence With Our Neighbors, Talk About The Reality Of Our Lives And Realize That We're Not Alone, That We Have A Right To Be Physically Safe And Emotionally Safe In Our Own Homes.

Is A Woman Raped Every Three Minutes Or Every Six Minutes? It Is Far Too Much, Whatever It Is.