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“It might not seem self-evident that impunity for white violence against blacks would engender black-on-black murder. But when people are stripped of legal protection and placed in desperate straits...”
“Rats and roaches live by competition under the law of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy. It is impossible not to notice how little t...”
“Seek justice: Make a commitment to serve the needs of the least of these and give voice to the voiceless.”
“I believe that the community - in the fullest sense: a place and all its creatures - is the smallest unit of health and that to speak of the health of an isolated individual is a contradiction in t...”
“Community, then, is an indispensable term in any discussion of the connection between people and land. A healthy community is a form that includes all the local things that are connected by the lar...”
“Living a long life, the conventional wisdom at the time said, depended to a great extent on who we werethat is, our genes. It depended on the decisions we madeon what we chose to eat, and how much ...”
“It is an axiom of modern social psychology that the stories that tend to get repeated are the ones that somehow have the potential to strengthen the communities in which they are told, or to enhanc...”
“When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.”
“In our sin, wed rather trust in ourselves than another, amass our own righteousness than receive anothers, speak our own mind rather than listen to someone else.”
“We are usually told that democracy originated in ancient Athenslike science, or philosophy, it was a Greek invention. Its never entirely clear what this is supposed to mean. Are we supposed to beli...”
“I AM RESPONSIBLE FOR THE THING I DO NOT WHAT MY COMMUNITY OR RELIGION DOES.”
“An enlightened person raises the level of the consciousness of the entire community.”
“When meeting criticism, he would regard it not as something to resent but as a thing to be examined, like an interesting beetle. "That's a curious view, not uninteresting.”
“God's people are the stage upon which His forgiveness becomes visible. They are never more authentic than when they ask for forgiveness and forgive others.”
“A free theologian works in communication with other theologians...He waits for them and asks them to wait for him. Our sadly lacking yet indispensable theological co-operation depends directly or i...”
“In the Christian community thankfulness is just what it is anywhere else in the Christian life. Only he who gives thanks for little things receives the big things. We prevent God from giving us the...”
“We are each born into a situationa particular body (its race, sex, health...), a set of ancestors, a community, a nationand born into the stories told of each of these.”
“Every story is an act of trust between a writer and a reader: each story, in the end, is social. Whatever a writer sets down can help or harm a community of which he or she is a part. When I write ...”
“The telling and hearing of stories is a bonding ritual that breaks through illusions of separateness and activates a deep sense of our collective interdependence.”
“Linkeree does what he likes. He likes to be alone and think his own thoughts. No one is hurt by it. Sara said, Jason said that we are one people. Linkeree is saying he does not want to be part of u...”
