Word: letting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...dwellers. To avert dysentery and flu epidemics, the leaders evacuated 100 of the 2,400 residents, mostly toddlers, until the campsite could dry out. Still, the campaign's leaders professed themselves undiscouraged. "I was talking to the Lord," Bevel reported, "and he said he was going to let a little mud in here, so those it troubled could go on home. The Lord says he don't want them around...
Violation of Conscience. In another film, Coffin exclaimed at a New York press conference: "Let these arrests be made in churches and synagogues, that this country can see that the nation is now engaged in actions which are in violation of individual conscience." Soon after the film was shown at the court house, U.S. marshals dragged Robert A. Talmanson, 21, a convicted draft evader, from Boston's Arlington Street Unitarian-Universalist Church. A bloody melee ensued outside the church. Talmanson had gone to the church for sanctuary, an ancient tradition not legally recognized...
...Let me give you an example of the kind of agonizing I am talking about, how unnecessary and irrelevant it is. I happen to drive a sports car. When I first started working in the South ten years ago, I knew that I couldn't go with that sports car into some of these communities because I had decided that that would interfere with my relationship with these people. Well, it took me a long time to feel free enough to get to know some of these children well enough so that they could visit us in our home...
...have been mediating ever since, 30 minutes each morning, and 30 minutes each night. It's been easy to do--I sit in a darkened room, close my eyes, and let thoughts make their way through my mind. And when it comes, I think my mantra...
...Good. Now let your mantra begin just as easily as those thoughts...