AdamSmith Posted January 22, 2013 Posted January 22, 2013 Progress Does Not Always Come Easyby Jimmy CarterAs a legislator in my stateI drew up my first law to saythat citizens could never vote againafter they had passed away.My fellow members faced the troubling issuebravely, locked in hard debateon whether, after someone's death had come,three years should be adequateto let the family, recollecting him,determine how a loved one mayhave cast a vote if he had only livedto see the later voting day.My own neighbors warned me I had gonetoo far in changing what we'd always done.I lost the next campaign, and failed to carrya single precinct with a cemetery.From Jimmy Carter's Always A Reckoning and Other Poems, Random House, 1995. TotallyOz 1 Quote