#acre

I call them sacred echoes because I noticed that throughout my relationships, daily life, and study, the same scripturally sound idea or phrase or word will keep reappearing until I can no longer avoid its presence." -The Sacred Echo ↗

— Margaret Feinberg

#margaret-feinberg #the-sacred-echo #life

Where, indeed? Captain Vincent Reed had been born in the city of Richmond, Virginia, of northern parents who were stationed there by the telegraph company. He had attended West Point and he thought he knew something about warfare, having served under General Pope in his long and futile struggle against General Stonewall Jackson. Those men were fighters who would face the enemy till the last bullet was fired, but neither would participate in such a slaughter. Reed had had his troops in position. He was quite prepared to rush in for the kill, and he had positioned himself so that he would be in the vanguard when his men made their charge against the guns of the young braves threatening the left flank. But when he saw that the enemy had no weapons, that even their bows and arrows were not at hand, and that he was supposed to chop down little girls and old women, he rebelled on the spot, taking counsel with no one but his own conscience. ↗

— James A. Michener

#native-americans #slaughter #men

The road to the sacred leads through the secular. ↗

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

#road #sacred #secular #through

When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties. ↗

— Marquis de Lafayette

#each #for the people #government #insurrection #most

The Chinese leadership hoped that the world would soon forget the Tiananmen Square massacre. Our job in Congress is to ensure that we never forget those who lost their lives in Tiananmen Square that day or the pro-democracy cause for which they fought. ↗

— Tom Lantos

#chinese #congress #day #ensure #forget

Capitalism attacks and destroys all the finer sentiments of the human heart; it ruthlessly sweeps away old traditions and ideas opposed to its progress, and it exploits and corrupts those things once held sacred. ↗

— Daniel De Leon

#away #capitalism #corrupts #destroys #exploits

Class struggle: external peace, international solidarity, peace among peoples. This is the sacred slogan of international socialist democracy that liberates nations. ↗

— Karl Liebknecht

#class #class struggle #democracy #external #international

Sexuality is a private matter; some believe that broadcasting it destroys the very things that make it sacred. ↗

— Lance Loud

#broadcasting #destroys #make #matter #private

I live on this nice three acres in Hollywood. ↗

— Penelope Spheeris

#hollywood #i #live #nice #three

Civil union is less than marriage. Marriage is a sacred and valued institution and ought to be afforded equal protection. ↗

— James McGreevey

#civil #equal #equal protection #institution #less