There is all the difference in the world between the criminal’s avoiding the public eye and the civil disobedience’s taking the law into his own hands in open defiance. This distinction between an open violation of the law, performed in public, and a clandestine one is so glaringly obvious that it can be neglected only by prejudice or ill will. — Hannah Arendt
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Ken Sehested
There’s no such thing as a fruit grown without a root.
Archbishop Oscar Romero
Whoever believes that my preaching is political, that it provokes violence, as if I were the cause of all the evils in the republic, forgets that the word of the Church is not inventing the evils which already exist in the world, but illuminating them. The light illumines what already exists. It doesn’t create it. The great evil already exists, and the word of God wants to do away with those evils. It points them out as part of a necessary denunciation so that people can return to good paths.
Albert Einstein
Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it. — Albert Einstein
Walter Brueggemann
The church is mandated not just to do kind things, but mandated to perceive the world differently: to know that the wave of the future is not in putting people down, but in raising them up; the fruit of the kingdom is not in excluding but in including. — Walter Brueggemann
Walter Brueggemann
There are buoyant powers of healing at work in the world that do not depend on us, that we need not finance or keep functioning and that are not at our disposal. — Walter Brueggemann
Walter Brueggemann
Every imperial agent wants to reduce what is possible to what is available.
Simone Weil
Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it. — Simone Weil
Walter Brueggemann
We have privy information about God’s intent for the world; and since then, we are marked men and women bearing a secret vision the world cannot tolerate. But isn’t it great to know it and to be invited to live it?!
Walter Brueggemann
God is at the breaking points in human community. — Walter Brueggemann