If there’s one thing I’ve learned after 30 years of writing, it’s this: Words matter.
Words, and how they are used, have the power to uplift, soar through the sky and change the world, and the people in it.
“I have a dream,” said Dr. Martin Luther King.
Who can ever forget those words?
But words, used in other ways, also have enormous power to hurt, kill and send people to the depths of despair.
Adolph Hitler knew the power of his words.
It matters how we use them.
As Japanese Americans, key words were used against us before and during World Wa…