Politics and World Affairs
Politics is not something I want to dwell on here but once in a while I run across a passage I can't help but clip.
Transcript of Barack Obama's Speech on Race and Politics
"We the people, in order to form a more perfect union."
Silence
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
Dr. Martin Luther King
What Horrid Creatures We Men Are
War necessarily brings with it some virtues, and great and heroic virtues, too. What horrid creatures we men are, that we cannot be virtuous without murdering one another?
Unnecessary War
Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.
Collection: Politics and World Affairs