Word: creed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wide variety in forms of government is compatible with social justice. . . . Without a family spirit [among nations] renewed strife is inevitable. . . . If the treaty makers are genuinely desirous of creating the conditions for peace, they must bring to the conference table a determination not to further their own political creed, but to restore a sense of security to the people of all nations...
...This reborn church . . . would pronounce ordinance, ritual, creed, all nonessential for admission into the Kingdom of God or His Church. A life, not a creed, would be the test. ... It would be the church of all the people . . . the church of the rich and the poor, the wise and the ignorant, the high and the low-a true democracy. ... I see all denominational emphasis set aside. I see cooperation, not competition. ... I see the church through its members molding the thought of the world and leading in all great movements. I see it literally establishing the Kingdom...
Gibran preached a diffuse Christianity without creed or ritual. He organized no church, held no services. Small groups of admirers formed in different cities; Lebanese exiles circulated around him; circles of twelve poets each, appointed for life and acknowledging Gibran as master, were organized in New York, Damascus, Beirut. His poetry in Arabic was apparently more striking than his vague, formless lines in English would suggest...
Unrecognized patron saint of planned philanthropy is Benjamin Franklin, who in 1751 undertook to gather money for the Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia. Said Organizer Franklin, summing up what still may be the best fund-raiser creed: "I do not remember any of my . . . maneuvers . . . wherein, after thinking of it, I more easily excused myself for having made some use of cunning...
Fifty-four years had given the old Liberal a creed which last week he passed on to those who would carry on in his tradition: "Hit your enemies hard. Be fearless in your own cause. Never forget, you're a radical and one of the people...