Callie Wilder’s Reviews > Strength to Love > Status Update

“We never get rid of an enemy by meeting hate with hate, we get rid of an enemy by getting rid of enmity. By its very nature, hate destroys and tears down; by its very nature, love creates and builds up.”

“The third word is agape, understanding and creative, redemptive goodwill for all men.”

“And if American democracy gradually disintegrates, it will be due as much to a lack of commitment to right. If modern man continues to flirt unhesitatingly with war and eventually transforms his earthly habitat into an inferno such as even the mind of Dante could not imagine, it will have resulted from downright badness and also from downright stupidity.”
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“If we assume that life is worth living and that man has a right to survival, then we must find an alternative to war. In a day when vehicles hurtle through outer space and guided ballistic missiles carve highways of death through the stratosphere, no nation can claim victory in war.”

“Our unanswered devotion to monopolistic capitalism makes us more concerned about the economic security of the captains of industry than for the laboring men whose sweat and skills keep industry functioning.”

“Too seldom do we see people in their true humanness.” pg. 39

“Longfellow said, ‘In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer,’ meaning that he is either a moulder of society or is moulded by society.”

“Race prejudice is based on groundless fears, suspicions, and misunderstandings.”

“In these turbulent days of uncertainty the evils of war and of economic and racial injustice threaten the very survival of the human race. Indeed, we live in the day of grave crisis.”
Written in 1963…