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This man who risked all, loved the poor, tried to feed them and heal them and speak for them and work on their behalf and consule them and ultimately agitate against the wrong he knew afflicted them. He walked for long stretches, preaching, one might even say today, organizing. He was not afraid to condemn those he knew were wrong, however powerful or privileged they were. He allowed Himself anger and that judicious indignation that distinguishes mere observers, however well intentioned, from social and political activists who want to change the world as well as study it. His name...
...will take all our energy, all our compassion, all our strength. We will need determination and faith, for truly it is our mission on earth, Without those, we are lost, but with them the big payoff and final reward will dwarf the millions that the selfish have hoarded and heal the divisiveness and the wounds already seared. It is our duty together, and together we must begin. For as my father quoted Albert Camus...
Responding as he felt he had to, Ford has nonetheless bobbled his first grand opportunity to lead the nation out of its concentration on a lost cause and to heal the wounds of domestic partisanship over Viet Nam. To be sure, he could not with a mere speech assuage the agony or the guilt that many Americans feel when they think of the lost and ruined lives, or watch the suffering of the war victims on their television screens. The worry over what still lies ahead for those in Indochina, both Americans and those to whom the U.S. owes...
...time for Americans to help heal the wounds of Indochina, and it is time for the U.S. to recognize the failure of its foreign policy in Vietnam and Cambodia. When Congress makes the final decision on U.S. military and to Cambodia and Vietnam on April 10 it should say "no" to support for their corrupt regime and it should say "no" to continuing the strife of those peoples who have not known peace on self determination in two generations...
Despite these discoveries, Healing is not an angry book. For one thing, Nolen recognizes that it is often doctors themselves who drive patients to the healers: "Some healers offer patients more warmth and compassion than physicians do." More important, Nolen acknowledges that, in some cases, the healers actually heal. Faith healers can and often do cure psychosomatic ailments. But they cannot cure organic illnesses. The problem is that the psychics as well as their patients frequently do not know the difference. Doctors do, or at least should. ∙Peter Stoler