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...Last September, when they were told that to further integration two of their daughters, Patrice and Susan, would have to go to fifth grade at the new Lee school, half a mile away-the other five children were not affected-they were confused, angry and defiant. "It is our God-given right to send our children to whatever school we want," says Mrs. Nephew...
Ritual observances are important, says Riskin, not only because they are God-given, but because "they fulfill our transcendental needs. Our lives require an element of poetry. Moments of the past and of the future become part of us." Above all, Rabbi Riskin defends the "divine rhythm" of the Sabbath and the festivals as welcome glimpses of eternity in a maddeningly busy world. He himself is active in causes ranging from prison visits to rallies for Soviet Jews, but the Sabbath is a day that bears no interruption beyond its rituals. As Riskin sees it, "the Sabbath needs structure...
Early Christian thinkers pondering the mystery of man believed that it was the "soul" that set human beings apart from animals. To them, the essence of man was his God-given spirit, immaterial, impalpable, otherworldly, something quite outside the natural world. But with the decline of religion and the rise of materialism, 17th and 18th century philosophers like Thomas Hobbes and Julien de La Mettrie increasingly viewed the soul as an aspect of the body, man as an animal, both men and animals as machines...
Young, who grew up in Detroit writing blues songs, treats MC and his friends with a kind of reverence. At 31, he plainly agrees with Celebrated Jazzman Jo Jones, whom he quotes: "Music is not only a God-given talent; it is a God-given privilege to play music...
...from predominantly white South Carolina labor groups, some of which have been traditionally standoffish toward Negro organizations. White clergymen have been active in a citizens' committee raising funds for the workers. Says Father William Joyce of St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church: "We are promoting the humanitarian, God-given right of people to organize for their own protection and betterment...