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Dr. Burns H. Weston
Bessie Dutton Murray Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus and
Senior Scholar, UI Center for Human Rights
The University of Iowa
and
Co-Director, Commons Law Project
History says, Don't hope
on this side of the grave.
But then, once in a lifetime
the longed for tidal wave
of justice can rise up,
and hope and history rhyme.
- Seamus Heaney
from "Double Take,"
The Cure of Troy (1991)
Another world is not only possible, she is on her way.
On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.
- Arundhati Roy (2003)
Hope is believing in the plausibility of the possible
over the necessity of the probable.
- Mimonides (12th c.)
Copyright © 1998-2009 by Burns H. Weston. All rights reserved.