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I think that the proclamation of the Gospel is sometimes nearer to an atheistic point of view than to traditional religious attitudes. Ernesto Cardenal
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I think that the proclamation of the Gospel is sometimes nearer to an atheistic point of view than to traditional religious attitudes. Ernesto Cardenal
I was always embarresed by the words ‘sacred,’ ‘glorious,’ and ‘sacrifice’ and the expression ‘in vain.’ We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a … Read more
Lincoln has accepted America as a biracial society. He’s talking about giving at least some black men the right to vote. In the Emancipation Proclamation he advises some blacks to labor faithfully for reasonable wages, here in the United States. He doesn’t say anything about them leaving the country. He puts black men in the … Read more
If you are going to abolish slavery, that opens up all these other questions: what system of labor is going to replace slave labor? What system of race relations is going to replace the race relations of slavery? Who is going to have power in the post-war South? The Emancipation Proclamation doesn’t answer that question, … Read more
Jesus Christ rose from the grave.’ With this proclamation, the Christian church began. This may be the fundamental element of Christian faith; certainly it is the most radical. Elaine Pagels
We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life of mankind. This declaration may well become the international Magna Carta for all men everywhere. We hope its proclamation by the General Assembly will be an event comparable to the proclamation in 1789 … Read more
Our gifts seem so small in comparison to God’s. But our efforts count, even though like Simeon we only stretch out our arms in the patience of faith so that we may receive the Holy Gift. Even though we only wait, poor and yearning in the darkness, in fervent longing for the proclamation, we are … Read more
I speak of the war as fruitless; for it is clear that, prosecuted upon the basis of the proclamations of September 22d and September 24th, 1862, prosecuted, as I must understand these proclamations, to say nothing of the kindred blood which has followed, upon the theory of emancipation, devastation, subjugation, it cannot fail to be … Read more
An Eagle Scout deserves a letter of congratulations, but not a proclamation, … That’s a normal process. It’s not a heroic process. Frank Bruno
. . . unless there comes to the Nation a greater emancipation than Lincoln’s Proclamation effected, it is doomed, it is bound to go down. Francis James Grimke