Editor:
In light of the debacle surrounding the Women’s March I am reminded of the Hippocratic Oath for physicians dating back to between the third and fifth centuries B.C.: “Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm.”
Perhaps the Hippocratic Oath could be amended and adopted by organizations devoted to social change. Something along the lines of, “Into whatsoever communities I enter, I will abstain from garbled messaging that garners national attention and makes my community appear to be a bunch of flippin’ idiots.”
Susan Pahl, Arcata
This article appears in ‘We’re Coming Home’.
Thank you.
Does Trump’s garbled messages “make” our community, and nation appear to be a bunch of “idiots”?
You’d have to be an idiot to think that.
The black woman I heard speaking at the march did a fine job.
The suffragettes refused to let Fredrick Douglas speak and condemned his desire to unite two natural allies being oppressed.
Every burgeoning movement faces this struggle.