When I began this blog in 2001, I was appalled by President Bush's headlong rush to an illegal war (we were not in fact under attack). As time wore on and Bush began his assault on the Constitution and any people bold enough to criticize, I believed that "the republic is endangered more by actions of our own government than by those of any terrorist." With the election of a high-minded, compassionate, intelligent man like Barack Obama, my fears have ceased.
"Honor them with peace, not war"
United for Peace
Wednesday, October 29, 2003
The deep honesty and moral purpose reflected in this statement is what, in my view, is sorely lacking from the White House lately.
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What we need
... King proceeded from the essentially religious persuasion that in each human being, black or white, whether deputy sheriff or hardware dealer or governor, there exists, however dimly, a certain natural identification with every other human being; that in the overarching moral design of the universe that ultimately connects us all, we tend to feel that what happens to a fellow human being in some way also happens to us, so that no man can very long continue to debase or abuse another human being without beginning to feel in himself at least some dull answering hurt and stir of shame. Therefore, in the catharsis of a live confrontation with wrong, when an oppressor's violence is met with a forgiving love, he can be vitally touched and even, however partially or momentarily, reborn as a human being, while the society witnessing such a confrontation will be quickened in conscience toward compassion and justice. -- Marshall Frady, excerpt from biography of Jesse Jackson
The deep honesty and moral purpose reflected in this statement is what, in my view, is sorely lacking from the White House lately.
Palema
6:39 AM
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