"The worst thing to do in life is to live in fear."

The Jamaican Diaspora community has lost another one of its civil rights activist(voices). He passed away on Wednesday, March 23, 2011 at the age of  76. The landscape of the black and Caribbean community in   Toronto, Ontario were blessed to have had a person such as Mr. Laws who as the title of this blog states believed that, "The worst thing to do in life is to live in fear." He further went on to say in a 2000 interview with the National Post,  "I have no fear at all. If one becomes afraid, you can’t do your work. You’ll be looking over your shoulders and be afraid to say what you want to say."

Whether you agreed with his approach or not it is a fact that Mr. Laws had no fear of speaking out against things that were unjust and too some extent against the constitutional rights and freedoms of Canadians. He has been able to leave this part of  the world better than he found it.

So to you we say thank you and hopefully more of the black/Caribbean Diaspora will analysis the actions of Mr. Laws and recognize that due to his efforts we all do not have to look over our shoulders as much.