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MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.: still relly today ;0D
LETTER FROM A BIRMINGHAM JAIL, CIRCA 1963 …I am cognizant of the inter-relatedness of all communities and states. I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single…
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IT DOES NOT RESONATE ON A RICHTER SCALE?
Why I love Nietzsche ;0P EXISTENTIALISM: From Dostoevsky to Sartre (Walter Kaufmann) “…he repudiated Christianity not because he considered it too rational but because he considered it the archenemy of reason…” “…with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more; this created all gods and afterworlds. Believe me,…
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C.S. LEWIS, MY LOVE: Christianity and fake “news” in American politics ;0D
THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS/Chapter 14, Circa 1942 My dear Wormwood, The most alarming thing in your last account of the patient is that he is making none of those confident resolutions which marked his original conversion. No more lavish promises of perpetual virtue, I gather; not even the expectation of an endowment of ‘grace’ for life,…
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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT: social responsibility.
THE MORAL BASIS OF DEMOCRACY: Chapter 7/Circa 1940 The war-ridden poverty-stricken world of today seems to be struggling essentially with problems of economics and its ills seem to be primarily materialistic. Yet, I believe, that we do not begin to approach a solution of our problems until we acknowledge the fact that they are spiritual…
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J.D. SALINGER, MY LOVE: words to live by ;0)
THE CATCHER IN THE RYE, Chapter 24, Circa 1945 “I don’t want to scare you,” he said, “but I can very clearly see you dying nobly, one way or another, for some highly unworthy cause.” He gave me a funny look. “If I write something down for you, will you read it carefully? And keep…
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