- "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly." Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Tim DeChristopher
“This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.”
Walt Whitman
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Pro-life is a philosophy in which the only life worth saving is the one saved by punishing a woman.
I found the following commentary earlier today when it rolled across my Tumblr dashboard. I traced it back to this source, posted over a year ago, and wanted to share it because it’s a damn fine reflection on what I think of so-called pro-lifers. As a man I’m never comfortable expressing my opinion on issues that directly affect women. Sure, I’m allowed an opinion, but I don’t think that I, or any other male of the species, should ever force … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Quotes, Religion
Tagged abortion, feminism, Human Rights, pro-choice, pro-life
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