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"The central doctrine of Christianity, then, is not that God is a bastard. It is, in the words of the late Dominican theologian Herbert McCabe, that if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you."--Terry Eagleton

"You can't conceive, my child, nor I nor anyone, the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God."--Graham Greene

“The opposite of poverty is not wealth; the opposite of poverty is justice."--Bryan Stevenson

Monday, January 16, 2012

Belated Martin Luther King Day Post


Nothing to say I haven't said before. Except to underline the point, that Dr. King was in Memphis supporting a sanitation worker's strike for economic justice. Or, as the quoted material in the post says:

Little Dovie realised, as Martin Luther King did, that the struggle and the civil rights movement wasn't just about race, but rather a far bigger issue of understanding power and class distinction.
Remember that every time a GOP Presidential candidate talks about the evils of "class warfare" or "the bitter politics of envy."

Dr. King was not envious.

(*corrected due to the kindness and attentiveness of a reader)

2 Comments:

Blogger Leonardo Ricardo said...

Exacto.

7:41 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

You hit the nail on the head - but a bit beside the point, he was in Memphis, not Atlanta, in April '68.

2:57 PM  

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