The Measure of a ManChristian Education Press, 1959 - 34 pages Why nonviolence matters Eloquent and passionate, reasoned and sensitive, this pair of meditations by the revered civil-rights leader contains the theological roots of his political and social philosophy of nonviolent activism. |
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... seek to be a little more realistic about man . They would avoid the extremes of a pessimistic naturalism and an optimistic humanism and seek to combine the truths of both . They see within man a strange dualism , something of a dichot ...
... seek to be a little more realistic about man . They would avoid the extremes of a pessimistic naturalism and an optimistic humanism and seek to combine the truths of both . They see within man a strange dualism , something of a dichot ...
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... seek to do his job so well that the living , the dead , or the unborn could not do it better . No matter how small one thinks his life's work is in terms of the norms of the world and the so - called big jobs , he must realize that it ...
... seek to do his job so well that the living , the dead , or the unborn could not do it better . No matter how small one thinks his life's work is in terms of the norms of the world and the so - called big jobs , he must realize that it ...
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... seek God and discover him and make him a power in your life . Without him all of our efforts turn to ashes and our sunrises into darkest nights . Without him , life is a meaning- less drama with the decisive scenes miss- ing . But with ...
... seek God and discover him and make him a power in your life . Without him all of our efforts turn to ashes and our sunrises into darkest nights . Without him , life is a meaning- less drama with the decisive scenes miss- ing . But with ...
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