RT @salisbury_matt: A memo from the Chairman

Please read.

Nancy Sinatra @NancySinatra

Written by my father in 1991:

1.“I’m a saloon singer, by self-definition. Even my mirror would never accuse me of inventing wisdom. But I do claim enough street smarts to know that hatred is a disease-a disease in the body of freedom, eating its way from the inside out,

2/ infecting all who come in contact with it, killing dreams and hopes of millions of innocents with words, as surely as if they were bullets….

“Take a minute. Consider what we are doing to each other as we rob friends and strangers of dignity as well as equality…

3/For if we don’t come to grips with this killer disease of hatred, of bigotry and racism and anti-Semitism, pretty soon we will destroy from within this blessed country….

4/ “Don’t just lip-sync the words to the song. Think them, live them. ‘My country ‘tis of thee, sweet land of liberty.’ And when the music fades, think of the guts of Rosa Parks, who by a single act in a single moment changed America as much as anyone who ever lived….

5/ “I’m no angel. I’ve had my moments. I’ve done a few things in my life of which I’m not too proud, but I have never unloved a human being because of race, creed, or color.

6/ And if you think this is a case of he who doth protest too much, you’re wrong. I couldn’t live any other way….” ~ Frank Sinatra 1991