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“True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.”
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“When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.”
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“Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back. You're done. It doesn't necessarily mean that you want to have lunch with the person. If you keep hitting back, you stay trapped in the nightmare...”
― Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
― Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
“A proper community, we should remember also, is a commonwealth: a place, a resource, an economy. It answers the needs, practical as well as social and spiritual, of its members - among them the need to need one another. The answer to the present alignment of political power with wealth is the restoration of the identity of community and economy.
(pg. 63, "Racism and the Economy")”
― The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
(pg. 63, "Racism and the Economy")”
― The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
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