Progress is usually born out of struggle. But struggle doesn’t always mean progress, does it? What do we need to add to struggle to create progress? The answer is hope. Hope, which attorney and author Bryan Stevenson told me is not a feeling but an orientation of the spirit. Hope is a choice that we make each morning, and we do not have the luxury of hopelessness if we want to see progress. The United States itself was born out of struggle. The Quaker migration was born out of struggle. The incredible achievements of the Jeanes teachers were born out of struggle.
