Monday, June 13, 2005
Carson, C. (ed) (1999) Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr
“…I want to tell you …it is not enough for us o talk about love. Love os one of the pivotal points of the Christian faith. There is another side called justice…” pp60
Deeply etched in the fiber of our religious tradition is the conviction that men are made in the image of God and that they are souls of infinte metaphysical value, the heirs of a legacy of dignity and worth. If we feel this as a profound moral fact, we cannot be content to see men hungary, to see mn victimised with starvation and ill health when we have the means to help them pp261
We have allowed the poor to become invisible and we become angry when they make their presence felt. But just as noviolenmce has exposed the ugliness of racial injustice, we must now find ways to expose and heal the sickness of poverty – not just its symptoms but its basic causes pp 262
Justice at its best is love correwcting everything that stands against love
Pp325
The great tradegy is that christinaity failed to see that it had the revolutionary edge. You don’t need to go to Karl Marx to learn how to be a revolutionary… I got it froma man calkled Jesus who said he was annoited to heal the broken hearted. He was annoited to deal with the poor…that is where we get our inspiration pp351
Dives? 353
Good samiritan “if I do not stop to help this man what will happen to him…?” not what will happen to me? 363
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Deeply etched in the fiber of our religious tradition is the conviction that men are made in the image of God and that they are souls of infinte metaphysical value, the heirs of a legacy of dignity and worth. If we feel this as a profound moral fact, we cannot be content to see men hungary, to see mn victimised with starvation and ill health when we have the means to help them pp261
We have allowed the poor to become invisible and we become angry when they make their presence felt. But just as noviolenmce has exposed the ugliness of racial injustice, we must now find ways to expose and heal the sickness of poverty – not just its symptoms but its basic causes pp 262
Justice at its best is love correwcting everything that stands against love
Pp325
The great tradegy is that christinaity failed to see that it had the revolutionary edge. You don’t need to go to Karl Marx to learn how to be a revolutionary… I got it froma man calkled Jesus who said he was annoited to heal the broken hearted. He was annoited to deal with the poor…that is where we get our inspiration pp351
Dives? 353
Good samiritan “if I do not stop to help this man what will happen to him…?” not what will happen to me? 363
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