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...going to choose the lesser of two evils. I'm going to choose what my conscience tells me to do. The right thing to do. And pray that by the next election others will accept my philosophy and see that the two political systems of today just don't have the answers--they don't have the absolutes that I think we need to rebuild this broken foundation...
...Gethsemani, Merton was given permission to build a modest, cinder-block hermitage in which to write and pray, and to receive a mounting stream of visitors. His message journeyed far beyond the confines of the retreat into a world with which he was finally at ease. The perduring cause was peace - a cause he had first championed in his days at Columbia in the 1930s: peace among races, peace in Viet Nam, peace between the superpowers who were to decide the fate of billions of souls. The irksome discipline of the monastery, Furlong concludes, had given him the freedom...
...Free at last. Free at last. Thank God Almighty we are free at last!!!' "Free! right here in Boston. Free! from violence. Free! from hatred. Free! from fear of one another, Free! to live together. Free! to learn together. Free! to build together. Free! to celebrate together. Free! to pray to God together...
...John Merrick to study his deformities and to present him to a conference of physicians as "the most perverted and degraded form of a human being" he has ever seen. Because Merrick will only grunt and growl, Treves takes him for an imbecile: "For his own sake, I pray to God he's an idiot." But the doctor soon discovers that his specimen is not only intelligent, but well-read and inquisitive, a sensitive young man painfully aware of his condition. Refusing to return him to his sideshow master, Treves sets out to educate the incurable Elephant Man, to make...
...lose the election, whether Americans might be separated, black from white, Jew from Christian, North from South, rural from urban, whether this nation will be guided from a sense of long-range commitment to peace, whether our adversaries will be tempted to end the peace for which we all pray...