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In Honor and Remembrance of Martin Luther King, Jr., Day
“If peace means a willingness to be exploited economically, dominated politically, humiliated and segregated, I don’t want peace. If peace means being complacently adjusted to a deadening status quo, I don’t want peace. If peace means keeping my mouth shut … Continue reading
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Tagged Absence of Conflict, Adjust, All People, Complacent, Deaden, Dominated, Economic, Existence, Exploited, Honor, Humiliated, Justice, Martin Luther King Jr., Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Peace, Politically, Remembrance, Segregated, Status Quo, Thought For the Day, When Peace Becomes Obnoxious, Willingness
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Thought For the Day: Today’s Democrat Party Wants You To Show A Vax Card In Order To Eat At A Restaurant. But They Don’t Want You To Show An ID Card In Order To Vote
“Today’s Democrat Party wants you to show a vax card in order to eat at a restaurant. But they don’t want you to show an ID Card in order to vote.” – House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy
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Tagged Democrat Party, ID, Kevin McCarthy, Restaurant, Show, Thought For the Day, Today, Vax Card, Vote
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First Principles: Laws, To Be Just, Must Give A Reciprocation of Right;…Without This, They Are Mere Arbitrary Rules of Conduct, Founded In Force
“We lay it down as a fundamental, that laws, to be just, must give a reciprocation of right; that, without this, they are mere arbitrary rules of conduct, founded in force, and not in conscience.” – Thomas Jefferson (1782)
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Tagged Arbitrary, Conscience, First Principles, Force, Founded, Fundamental, Just, Laws, Reciprocation of Right, Rules of Conduct, Thomas Jefferson
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A Brodsky View of the Pandemic
A Brodsky View of the Pandemicby Michael DoyleShow trial advances without stayCharges pressed without any delayThe time arrives to dispense all playIn a fluke filled with fearsCame the nice as if to cheersThat would repeat themselves through yearsQuickly then comes … Continue reading
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Tagged Affect, Battlefields, Beliefs, Bliss, Brodsky, Broken Out, Cast, Charges, Cheers, Citizens, Clue, Conscience, Consequences, Crisis, Crowned Head, Crush, Curtains, Delay, Duty, Errors, Experts, Eyes, Fact, Fears, Flail, Flu, Fluke, Freedom, Freedom and Liberty, Full Sail, Happiness, History, Horizon, Ignorance, Inner Cells, Judgment, Known, Labs, Last Act, Liberty, Looking Back, Marble, Masst, Mean, My Life, Not Forget, Pandemic, Paradise, Past, Play, Poet, Poetry and Poems, Politician, Prescience, Present, Prevail, Pride, Pseudo-Science, Repeat, Revealed, Sad, Sails, Shots, Show Trial, State of Freedom, Step On, Tarnish, Time, Truth, Wishes, Years
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First Principles: While We Are Contending For Our Own Liberty, We Should Be Very Cautious Not To Violate the Rights of Conscience In Others, Ever Considering That God Alone Is the Judge of the Hearts of Men, and To Him
“While we are contending for our own liberty, we should be very cautious not to violate the rights of conscience in others, ever considering that God alone is the judge of the hearts of men, and to him.” – George … Continue reading
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Tagged Cautious, Consider, Contend, First Principles, George Washington, God, Hearts, Judge, Liberty, Others, Own, Rights of Conscience, Violate
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Thought For the Day: None Are More Hopelessly Enslaved Than Those Who Falsely Believe They Are Free
“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
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Tagged Believe, Depth, Enslaved, Eyes, Falsehoods, Feed, Free, Hopeless, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Lies, Master, Minds, None, Right, Rule, Thought For the Day, Truth, Wrong
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First Principles: Far From Being Rivals or Enemies, Religion and Law Are Twin Sisters, Friends, and Mutual Assistants
“Far from being rivals or enemies, religion and law are twin sisters, friends, and mutual assistants. Indeed, these two sciences run into each other. The divine law, as discovered by reason and the moral sense, forms an essential part of … Continue reading
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Tagged Both, Disover, Divine Law, Enemies, Eseential, Far, First Principles, Friends, James Wilson, Law, Lectures On Law, Moral Sense, Mutul, Reason, Religion, Rivals, Sciences, Twin Sisters
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Thought For the Day: There Comes A Time When One Must Take A Position That Is Neither Safe, Nor Politic, Nor Popular But One Must Take It Because One’s Conscience Tells One That It Is Right
“Cowardice asks the question, ‘Is it safe?’ Expediency asks the question, “Is it politic?” Vanity asks the question, “Is it popular?” But, conscience asks the question, “Is it right?” And there comes a time when one must take a position … Continue reading
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Tagged Conscience, Cowardice, Expediency, Is It Right?, Martin Luther King Jr., Politic, Popular, Question, Safe, Thought Fort The Day, Toe, Vanity
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