"As we practice hospitality, there comes a point where the suffering around us drives us to ask what it would take to reimagine the world. We've all heard the saying "Give someone a fish and they'll eat for a day, but teach them to fish and they'll eat for the rest of their life." But our friend John Perkins challenges us to go farther. He says, "The problem is that nobody is asking who owns the pond." As we consider economics, some of us will give people fish. Others will teach people to fish. But still others must be looking at who owns the pond and who polluted it, for these are also essential questions for our survival. We must storm the fence that has been built around the pond and make sure everyone can get to it, for there are enough fish for all of us.
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Just some quotes that I have encountered over the past year that I wrote down in a journal that I want to add here. Some of them have sources some do not.
"Let us speak about the deepest things we know right away" - friend of Dr. Marcia McFee
"Ignorance is the privilege of the powerful"
"God is a comedian preforming to an audience who is too afraid to laugh."
"No one teaches another, nor is anyone self taught." - Paul Freire
"Language is the house of being." - Martin Heiddeggar
"Imagination is evidence of the divine." - William Blake
"To tell the truth when I need a fact I make it up." - William Falkner
"You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war."
"God is not two men and a bird." - in reference to the trinity
"When I give good to the poor they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have not food, they call me a communist." - Donna Helder Camera
"Let us speak about the deepest things we know right away" - friend of Dr. Marcia McFee
"Ignorance is the privilege of the powerful"
"God is a comedian preforming to an audience who is too afraid to laugh."
"No one teaches another, nor is anyone self taught." - Paul Freire
"Language is the house of being." - Martin Heiddeggar
"Imagination is evidence of the divine." - William Blake
"To tell the truth when I need a fact I make it up." - William Falkner
"You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war."
"God is not two men and a bird." - in reference to the trinity
"When I give good to the poor they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have not food, they call me a communist." - Donna Helder Camera
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"It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness."
- Chinese Proverb
in Gandhi, Quotes, Social Justice, sin
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Seven Deadly Social Sins
Wealth without Work
Pleasure without Conscience
Science without Humanity
Knowledge without Character
Politics without Principle
Commerce without Morality
Worship without Sacrifice
Seven Deadly Social Sins
Wealth without Work
Pleasure without Conscience
Science without Humanity
Knowledge without Character
Politics without Principle
Commerce without Morality
Worship without Sacrifice