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Feast of St Thomas More, who was beheaded on July 6 1535. He had served King Henry VIII with loyalty and distinction until the king demanded a more absolute loyalty than More was prepared to offer. “I die as the king’s loyal servant, but God’s first.”
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Mistake—meant to say the Civil Rights Act was signed one MONTH later, July 1964.
Important to remember the price that was paid for the Civil Rights Act of 1964, signed the following year, and the Voting Rights Act signed a year later. And never to forget.
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On 6/21 1964 three young civil rights activists in Neshoba County MS, James Chaney, MIckey Schwerner, Andrew Goodman were lynched by the Klan--beaten, shot, and buried in an earthen dam. The governor of MS said it was a communist plot. "They boys are in Cuba," he said.
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“The administration’s Iran policy is not a strategy. It is a pressure tactic wrapped in bellicosity folded inside a chimera.” washingtonpost.com/opinions/…
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For the first hour Mary Lou and her family enjoyed settling into their new home. The air filter took care of most of the radiation and there was even room for Bud to stand upright! But then Dad began to regret having skimped on the cost of a toilet.
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‘Never again’ means nothing if Holocaust analogies are always off limits - The Washington Post washingtonpost.com/outlook/2…
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On June 19 1865 thousands of slaves in Texas learned that the Civil War had ended in April, that slavery in the United States was abolished, and that they were free. #Juneteenth
"As a nation, as a collective, we’ve never really acknowledged the 250-plus years of slavery, and the depth of it, and the trauma it caused and the wealth it created. We haven’t really had an accounting for that."
#Juneteenth
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Thank you! 🙏
"What would it mean to say, “I believe in my life story”? Could we also imagine the ways that God is speaking to us—and perhaps to others in ways we cannot know—precisely through our life story?"
.@RobertEllsberg's beautiful new book is a gift to cherish and share.
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Those who champion the use of torture should not lecture others on the lessons of history or the meaning of disgrace. (See: “waterboarding,” history of.)
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