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All of the wars in the world are fueled by power struggles either at individual, national or international levels

Politicians are a higher breed of men. They know that this world is ruthless and that they must live accordingly to cope with it

Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. - John Adams

While opposing injustice nonviolently, he (Gandhi) insisted, is always morally superior to opposing it violently, opposing injustice violently is still morally superior to doing nothing to oppose it at all.

In musing on all that occurred in the course of the several years of harassment the error I decided I made, and others frequently make, is to assume that we are all academics trying to sort out intellectual issues. The False Memory Syndrome Foundation is a political organization composed primarily of individuals who have been accused of child sexual abuse and those who support and defend them, sometimes for considerable sums.Such people are not going to be swayed by the research. They start with a fixed point of view-the need to deflect threat. That threat comes in the form of public exposure, loss of income, monetary penalties, or even in some cases incarceration. I heard a colleague say recently, in referring to the 30 or so studies that document the existence of recovered memory, __ou get to the point where you wonder when is it going to be enough._ It is never going to be enough if the point is not searching for the truth but protecting a particular point of view.Confessions of a Whistle-Blower: Lessons Anna C. Salter. Ethics & Behavior, Volume 8, Issue 2 June 1998

For example, the citizens will live out the value of diligence in their enterprises. They will live out the value of prudence in their finances. They will live out the value of industry in the economy. They will live out the value of love in their neighbourhood. They will live out the value of dignity of labour in the market place, etc. All these will go a long way into propelling both the economy and political life of a nation to the greatest height possible.

Prolific irony - For 8 years, the finger on the button that could end the world belonged to a president who couldn't pronounce the word "nuclear.

And I thought, y__now, I mean_this is crazy. I mean, the only thing that determines what country you belong to is where you happened to be born? What is a country, anyway? It__ not, y__now, __urple mountain__ majesty_ or __ruited plains,_ whatever the hell that means. I mean, America isn__ a place, it__ an ideal. It could happen in the Sahara Desert and still be America. For that matter, I__ the child of immigrants. My father__ lived and worked in this country for the past three decades. And he__ somehow more or less American than some redneck who uses Osama bin Laden for toilet paper? How the hell do you measure something like that?

I've said it before, history repeats itself for those who don't learn from the past. Can we please learn from all this? Please? Or is everyone waiting for yet another savior to come along and charm them Hollywood style if freedom is still around for America's next election?

And this man, who had sailed round Europe and navigated the Great Northern Route, leaned happily over half a ladleful of thin oatmeal kasha, cooked entirely without fat - just oats and water.

The space between the private and the public is the nexus of the personal and the social, if not political. It__ where we meet the strong or subtle cultural censors who attempt to define what community, race, class, or gender can or cannot speak, to tell us which stories are told and valued and which are not. In short, it__ where we__e reminded of the power of personal stories and the power of the storyteller.

It's sad that several political parties still count the dead, the starving, the unemployed by their religion, caste, creed and sect. The young generation needs to engage in politics of right vs wrong and not right vs left.

Let bricks of truth fill the skies and send their walls of conformity crashing downAnd let the heavens echo with the blows of our liberation

The decrease in the number of killings doesn__ make any difference if the society has to sleep with the ghosts of the old devil.

For if our bodies aren__ our own,And justice isn__ ours,And our love is just a sin,And voices by the peopleAre no longer for the people,What have we left to lose?

Justice requires not only the ceasing and desisting of injustice but also requires either punishment or reparation for injuries and damages inflicted for prior wrongdoing. The essence of justice is the redistribution of gains earned through the perpetration of injustice. If restitution is not made and reparations not instituted to compensate for prior injustices, those injustices are in effect rewarded. And the benefits such rewards conferred on the perpetrators of injustice will continue to "draw interest," to be reinvested, and to be passed on to their children, who will use their inherited advantages to continue to exploit the children of the victims of the injustices of their ancestors. Consequently, injustice and inequality will be maintained across the generations as will their deleterious social, economic, and political outcomes.

The triune God exercises total government over all things, and He requires us as His image-bearers to exercise government in Christ in our own spheres in terms of His law.

Have you ever found yourself saying, "There ought to be a law against this," or, "Somebody should do something"? Well, here__ the good news - you can be the one to do something. You can be the one to make the law.