Seeing change happen

Marion McNaughton discerns an enduring truth in the words of Dylan Thomas, in Under Milk Wood: ‘Time passes. Listen. Time passes.’

by Marion McNaughton 7th September 2012

A nonviolence trainer said recently, ‘I went away for a few days, and when I came back, Occupy was happening at St Paul’s. I hadn’t seen it coming.’  Rosa Parks, a black woman who refused to move to the back of the bus, said, when asked why, ‘I’d just had enough of being pushed around’.