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...wonder worker Jesus," he has discovered after patient inquiry, was actually the rightful heir to the throne of Israel. He was, in short, the legitimate but unacknowledged son of Prince Antipater, grandson of Herod the Great. This secret, known to few people during Jesus' life, became known to Pontius Pilate, the Roman Governor General of Judaea. That was why Pilate granted Jesus a private interview and that, of course, accounted for the inscription Pilate wrote for the cross: "Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews...
...Pontius Pilatism." Negroes, says A. Philip Randolph, President of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, are learning that neither Democrats nor Republicans can safely be relied on for help. So far as the Negro is concerned, they are simply "two peas in a pod . . . tweedledee and tweedledum." Negroes are also losing their fear of being terrorized and beaten in retaliation for becoming politically active. "Time and again," says Professor Sterling A. Brown, "I heard the anecdote ... of the new sort of hero-the Negro soldier who, having taken all he could stand, shed his coat, faced his persecutors and said...
...prisoners, women who have leagued against lynching, trade-union organizers who have risked life & limb), the authors pay tribute. But Negroes, says Dr. Gordon B. Hancock, are bewildered by the number of sympathetic whites whose "finer feelings are obscured beneath a lack of moral courage ... a kind of 'Pontius Pilatism.'" The more cynical Negroes merely conclude that the saving grace of the white man is "his lack of unanimity in any program ... of oppression...
...that aid for Great Britain and the United States is called for on spiritual and moral grounds. . . . We are playing the part of Pontius Pilate, washing our hands and asking what is truth...
...story from nearly every point of view except from that of Jesus. From the beginning of His mature teaching period until the Resurrection, the impact of His career is shown not only on the disciples and the two Marys, but on the high priests, Herod Antipas and Salome, Pontius Pilate and his wife, the rabble and the revolutionaries of Palestine...