“….I asked my former Senator, Doug Jones, if it matters when Americans contact their senators, and this is what he told me: “What the Administration is doing affects everyone, and it is through the collective voices of Americans to their elected representatives that such hurtful and shameful policies can be stopped. Don’t wait on others. Be the one to cast the pebble into the pond and start the ripples of change.”

….Donald Trump is known to back down in the face of sustained opposition. Let’s get to work on that. Take courage from what’s happening among the ranks of career civil servants.

Take heart, and remind yourself of the words said by Revolutionary War sea captain John Paul Jones when the British demanded that he surrender his outmaneuvered frigate, already beginning to sink. “I have not yet begun to fight,” he told them. Ultimately, he won the battle.”

Joyce Vance