Posted in seeker, tagged mark twain, my tribe on April 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Why, it was like reading about France and the French, before the ever memorable and blessed Revolution, which swept a thousand years of such villany away in one swift tidal-wave of blood — one: a settlement of that hoary debt in the proportion of half a drop of blood for each hogshead of it that [...]
Posted in seeker, tagged martin luther king, my tribe on April 5, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The Martin Luther King I love is not the one most people know. He’s the subject of The Martin Luther King You Don’t See on TV:
In the early 1960s, when King focused his challenge on legalized racial discrimination in the South, most major media were his allies. Network TV and national publications graphically showed the [...]
Posted in seeker, tagged my tribe, Woody Guthrie on March 30, 2008 | 7 Comments »
I hate a song that makes you think that you are not any good. I hate a song that makes you think that you are just born to lose. Bound to lose. No good to nobody. No good for nothing. Because you are too old or too young or too fat or too slim or [...]
Posted in seeker, tagged martin luther king, my tribe, race on March 10, 2008 | No Comments »
James Reeb was killed on this day in 1965. In the eulogy for the Rev. James Reeb, Martin Luther King asked, “Who killed James Reeb?” and answered,
James Reeb was murdered by the indifference of every minister of the gospel who has remained silent behind the safe security of stained glass windows. He was murdered by [...]
Posted in seeker, tagged my tribe, quotes on December 16, 2007 | No Comments »
From the Church of Stories:
“‘In this world, you must be oh so smart, or oh so pleasant.’ Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant.” —Elwood P. Dowd in Harvey by Mary Chase
Three Sufi sayings:
“I never saw any lamp shining more brilliantly than the lamp of silence.” —Bayazid al-Bistami
“I went to a wilderness, love [...]
Posted in seeker, tagged my tribe, quotes on September 4, 2007 | 13 Comments »
“I’d rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.”
“If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.”
“No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all [...]
Posted in seeker, tagged my tribe, quotes on September 3, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Lenny Bruce is one of the champions of laughing at injustice. He had many targets, and his tools were part of his cause. He was arrested repeatedly for profanity. As he observed, “Take away the right to say fuck and you take away the right to say fuck the government.“
Yes, it is sad commentary on [...]
Posted in seeker, tagged my tribe, quotes, taxes on September 1, 2007 | 10 Comments »
In the comments to when do you stop fighting and start laughing?, someone said:
if you really think that “there’s nothing more heroic than laughter at people who love violence,” then really, I have nothing more to say, because such cowardice boggles the mind.
Her comment may have come from ignorance of history, or it may’ve come [...]
Posted in seeker, tagged my tribe, quotes on August 24, 2007 | 4 Comments »
“Those are the same stars, and that is the same moon, that look down upon your brothers and sisters, and which they see as they look up to them, though they are ever so far away from us, and each other.”
“If women want any rights more than they’s got, why don’t they just take them, [...]
Posted in seeker, tagged my tribe, quotes on August 24, 2007 | 28 Comments »
“Men did not make the earth… It is the value of the improvements only, and not the earth itself, that is individual property… Every proprietor owes to the community a ground rent for the land which he holds.”
“He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he [...]
