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Read more: Why shouldn’t women vote?During the summer of 1920, the anti-suffragettes offered plenty of reasons. “I would rather see my daughter in a coffin than at the polls,” one…
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Read more: Three kinds of patriots“There are three kinds of patriots, two bad and one good,” said William Sloane Coffin. “The bad ones are the uncritical lovers and the loveless…
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Read more: Hope“Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible,” said William Sloane Coffin. Coffin was a minister and long-time peace activist.
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Read more: Love and truth“The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything by love,” said William Sloane Coffin. Sloane was a minister and…
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Read more: Almost 500 petitionsOn the first Tuesday of November 1872, more than 150 women around the country, including Susan Anthony, tried to vote. Susan Anthony was arrested, but…
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Read more: Flowers in the morningI still enjoy my early morning walks, and I am leaving my house even earlier now that it’s warmer in Dallas. It is good to…
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Read more: Change?“What the ego hates more than anything else in the world is to change—even when the present situation is not working or is horrible,” writes…
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Read more: Try and not try“We must both try and not try, we must both ‘care and not care,’ as poet T.S. Eliot puts it,” write Richard Rohr in his…
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Read more: ForgivenessForgiveness is to let go of our hope for a different past, write Richard Rohr in his book Breathing Under Water. “It is what it…
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Read more: Long term or short term?“Prevention is physically rewarding in the long term, but not emotionally rewarding in the short term,” wrote Ed Yong in the May 20, 2020, issue…