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The Fruits of Ignorance

Ignorance and obscurantism have never produced anything other than flocks of slaves for tyranny.
- Emiliano Zapata
 

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Managing politics in favor of trans-national markets

‘It is not just that governments can no longer “manage” their national economies, to survive in office they must increasingly “manage” national politics in such a ways as to adapt them to the pressures of trans-national market forces’.
- Colin Leys

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Economic Exploitation

Many white americans of good will never have connected bigotry with economic exploitation. They have deplored prejudice, but tolerated or ignored economic injustice. But the Negro knows that these two evils have a malignant kinship.
Dr. Martin Luther King

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living the revolution

Suppose you had the revolution you are talking and dreaming about. Suppose your side had won, and you had the kind of society that you wanted.
How would you live, you personally, in that society? Start living that way now
- Paul Goodman

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education - quote

“It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated”
- Alec Bourne

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keep that book inside you

Today at a writers workshop hosted at the Mustard Seed House someone made the comment that everyone have a book inside them - to what I thought “…and many should keep it there”.
There is a saying about teachers that applies well to most non-fiction popular religious writers:  those who can’t be, write about being.
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threshold

Baptism is a threshold experience. It’s about moving through a doorway from one room to another, from one space to another, from one community to another. The baptismal service is the moment you stand on the threshold. But you don’t stay there. Before baptism, people belong to the community of their family and are beloved [...]

like a lover…

Like a lover who spends all his time thinking of his distant love, God has been thinking of me since before I was born, for all eternity.
— Ernesto Cardenal in Abide in Love

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Churches will be more community centers than kind of liturgical museums

The church by the middle years of next century is going to be much more involved in a renewal of spirituality. And the spirituality will be community based. Churches will be more community centers than kind of liturgical museums. They will be much more active on the grass-roots level in areas of social concern. They [...]

Christ is massacred in His members

In the whole world, throughout the whole of history, even among religious men and among saints, Christ suffers dismemberment.
His physical Body was crucified by Pilate and the Pharisees; his body is drawn and quartered from age to age by the devils in the agony of that dis-union which bred and vegetates in our soul, prone [...]

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