Howard Thurman - Jesus and the disinherited (1949)

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During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.

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Jesus rejected hatred because he saw that hatred meant death to the mind, death to the spirit, and death to communion with his Father. He affirmed life; and hatred was the great denial.

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If a man knows precisely what he can do to you or what epithet he can hurl against you in order to make you lose your temper, your equilibrium, then he can always keep you under subjection.

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It cannot be denied that too often the weight of the Christian movement has been on the side of the strong and the powerful and against the weak and oppressed-this, despite the gospel.

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Anyone who permits another to determine the quality of his inner life gives into the hands of the other the keys to his destiny.

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