![]() ![]() We can only fight an idea with a greater idea, to which, in all phases of our life, we are dedicated with high purpose and deep resolve. We cannot fight an idea with threats, investigations, and scares. This means that we are losing our sense of destiny as a people are relaxing our faith in the ideals which gave birth to our nation and for whose high fulfillment we have in the past marshaled the resources of our common life. ![]() ![]() The present tendency is to make of everyone a scapegoat for our collective fears. We are rapidly becoming a nation of panic-ridden people. Yesterday I was reading Howard Thurman’s book, Deep is the Hunger, written in the 1950s when I came upon this quote that seems even more true today: I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the state of our world and the divisions we face, both in this country and in the broader world. ![]()
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