Prophets Without Honor: A Requiem for Moral PatriotismAlgora Publishing, 2007 - 376 sider Giving their lives to the poor, protesting wars and the arrogance of American hegemony, Catholic Priests have been beaten, arrested, and threatened with death. In this chronicle of their times, they mourn parishioners whom they could not protect, and colleagues who gave their all in the war against corporate and governmental greed, and violence against humanity. |
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Side 339 - And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the children of men builded.
Side 128 - If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially.
Side 17 - The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.
Side 14 - The worst to be feared and the best to be expected can be simply stated. The worst is atomic war. The best would be this: a life of perpetual fear and tension; a burden of arms draining the wealth and the labor of all peoples; a wasting of strength that defies the American system or the Soviet system or any system to achieve true abundance and happiness for the peoples of this earth.
Side 259 - Here, then, is the problem which we present to you, stark and dreadful and inescapable: Shall we put an end to the human race; or shall mankind renounce war?
Side 339 - Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly." And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar. Then they said, "Come let us build ourselves a city, and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Side 14 - Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
Side 36 - It shall be unlawful for any person knowingly to combine, conspire, or agree with any other person to perform any act which would substantially contribute to the establishment within the United States of a totalitarian dictatorship...
Side 27 - Sir, I exist!" "However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me "A sense of obligation.
Side 46 - The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.