“We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.”
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It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.
One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.
We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus but our ideas about Santa Claus change, mature and become more nuanced, whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level.