He was an absolute sepulchre in swallowing oppression and ill-usage without an echo of complaint, no murmur of resentment. The blows that fell upon him resounded not, and no one but God remembered them.
“Becoming American meant rejecting one of the two worlds. It meant trying to hide the grease stains saturating the paper in which your school lunch of a fried potato and egg sandwich on crusty bread was wrapped, while the rest of your classmates ate ham on white bread with mayonnaise.”
― The Italian Americans: A History
― The Italian Americans: A History
“the economically more powerful culture may not be the more powerful culture spiritually and morally.”
― Spirit and Resistance: Political Theology And American Indian Liberation
― Spirit and Resistance: Political Theology And American Indian Liberation
“Becoming American meant hearing slurs that now defined you and your people: dago, wop, guinea, spaghetti bender.”
― The Italian Americans: A History
― The Italian Americans: A History
“Contemporary euro-american occupation of Indian land is an important continuing benefit of the conquest that must be accounted for in the euro-american moral and spiritual inventory. In euro-american legal discourse, a recipient of stolen property is just as liable as the actual thief.”
― Spirit and Resistance: Political Theology And American Indian Liberation
― Spirit and Resistance: Political Theology And American Indian Liberation
“as Christian writers from the very beginning (i.e. Paul) have seen, it is part of normal Christian experience that we, too, should be prepared to agonize in prayer as we await our own complete redemption and that of all creation.”
― Mark for Everyone
― Mark for Everyone
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