[W]hat possible purpose does this lashing-out serve? Will activists be shamed into recovering their previous enthusiasm? Will Republicans stop their vicious attacks because Obama is lashing out to his...
People would rather believe than know.
I think the church is often a culprit in the busyness, especially in the evangelical church. Again, it's part of being Americans. Part of being evangelicals too is that we're highly activist. We are a...
As long as you're scared you're on the plantation.
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
Individual heterosexual women came to the movement from relationships where men were cruel, unkind, violent, unfaithful. Many of these men were radical thinkers who participated in movements for socia...
New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled the humiliating question arises 'Why then are you not taking part in them?
Why do I always listen to your insane plans? Why aren't we at home watching TV like everyone else? What possible difference will any of this make?
As usual, in every scheme that worsens the position of the poor, it is the poor who are invoked as beneficiaries.
But the world I wanted wasn’t the world I lived in, and if I would do nothing until I could repair every terrible thing at one, I would do nothing forever.
If a policy is wrongheaded feckless and corrupt I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.
We should refrain from adopting laws that would allow countries with poor scorecard on human rights to exploit backdoors on techs for silencing dissent.
One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this...
The path towards peace is not for the righteous, the ethical, the active and the compassionate to shit on the malicious, the complacent, the violent and the ignorant. The path towards peace is to be p...
Live in such a way that when you die you leave God in your will for your children.
Save this gift given to us.
We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric.
Sometimes we have to do the work even though we don't yet see a glimmer on the horizon that it's actually going to be possible.
Poets can't march in protest or do that sort of thing. I feel that's against the rules, and pointless. If mankind wants a great big final bang, that's what it'll get. One should never protest against...
The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.
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