No. of Recommendations: 16
What do you think is the thing that he has done so far that most affects your individual freedom, personally?
Albaby, I agree with you on so much, but the way you frame your question suggests that you don’t quite get it, or if you do- that you believe it’s irrelevant.
So I’m going to answer you in the only way I know how- as the longtime clergyman that I am- by quoting two other longtime clergy type folk with whom you may be acquainted.
No man is an island, entire of itself;
every man is a piece of the continent,
a part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were,
as well as if a manor of thy friends` or of thine own were.
Any man`s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind.
And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
John Donne (1572 - 1631)
And-
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
—Martin Niemöller
(1892-1984)
If we wait until the threat directly affects us, we will have waited too long. And we will have failed as human beings.
