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Those Who Truly Fight for Justice Don’t Live Very Long

1/28/2011

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Socrates
Since the Martin Luther King holiday last week, I’ve been musing over something Socrates said during his trial: “He who would really fight for justice, must do so as a private man, not in public, if he means to preserve his life, even for a short time.” If true, Socrates’ words mean Martin Luther King would have been assassinated even sooner had he been a public man, a politician, espousing the same views. In every age, men and women, public and private, have been rewarded with premature death for fighting for justice: Guevara, Lumumba, Gandhi, Nat Turner, Joan of Arc and, of course, Socrates himself.

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MLK on America’s Poverty and Presumptuous Role as World Policeman

1/17/2011

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"In the days ahead we must not consider it unpatriotic to raise certain basic questions about our national character. We must begin to ask, 'Why are there forty million poor people in a nation overflowing with such unbelievable affluence? Why has our nation placed itself in the position of being God's military agent on earth...? Why have we substituted the arrogant undertaking of policing the whole world for the high task of putting our own house in order?'" —Martin Luther King

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Those Who Choose Bullets Over Words

1/9/2011

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The gunman who shot Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords through the skull, wounded 11 others and killed 6, chose bullets over words.

This is the tragic culmination of a growing trend of insults, vandalism, personal threats and potential threats of armed revolt (from some Republican candidates). Culmination… Let us pray that this is the culmination and not just another stage in an ongoing escalation. But I don’t mean to make light of what happened to Giffords and the others in Tucson. Not at all.

An article worth reading (if you haven't already):
"Bloodshed Puts New Focus on Vitriol in Politics" (NYT)

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