Can you imagine someone who could forgive those people who unjustly imprisoned him for 27 years? He must have been a moderate man, or as Patrick might say, on the “middle path.”
There is a special kind of person who can be a Gandhi, ML King, or Mandela. More Christ-like than most of us in being able to turn the other cheek and keep the eyes on the goal.
With this government, it wouldn’t surprise me if they put Pope Francis on the terrorist watch list. He’s getting to be way too much of one of those firebrand liberation theologists.
Not surprised. As I joked to my vet last week while having the dog looked at, he and I can now pull our copies of Guiterrez and Boff out of hiding without worrying about the Inquisition coming for us.
95 years old. Seems that Nelson Mandela would have been assassinated in the good ole USA long before that age. Just think of JFK, MLK, and RFK.
Now that I am sixty four
I set my seat a little lower,
and I ride a little slower;
look around a whole lot more,
and mainly seem to go
in the direction of the shore.
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A man A giant. I wish we had one.
can you imagine being imprisoned in 8×8 cell for 27yrs ?? AND NOT BEING ABLE TO RIDE YOUR BIKE?? I would be nuts in a week or less.
A true giant of a human being. Let his life and legacy be an inspiration to we mere mortals to strive beyond ourselves for fairness and justice.
truth
Can you imagine someone who could forgive those people who unjustly imprisoned him for 27 years? He must have been a moderate man, or as Patrick might say, on the “middle path.”
There is a special kind of person who can be a Gandhi, ML King, or Mandela. More Christ-like than most of us in being able to turn the other cheek and keep the eyes on the goal.
Good interview clips here.
Too bad we had him on the terrorist list until 2008.
With this government, it wouldn’t surprise me if they put Pope Francis on the terrorist watch list. He’s getting to be way too much of one of those firebrand liberation theologists.
khal
faux news is already on the pope’s case. I don’t watch faux news, saw it on Jon Stewart.
Not surprised. As I joked to my vet last week while having the dog looked at, he and I can now pull our copies of Guiterrez and Boff out of hiding without worrying about the Inquisition coming for us.
Rush Lamebaugh called him a Marxist. I’d take that as a complement.
95 years old. Seems that Nelson Mandela would have been assassinated in the good ole USA long before that age. Just think of JFK, MLK, and RFK.
Now that I am sixty four
I set my seat a little lower,
and I ride a little slower;
look around a whole lot more,
and mainly seem to go
in the direction of the shore.