"Wilberforce's and King's appeals were met with noxious lies, fraudulent
justifications, and phoney excuses from those who either directly or
indirectly benefited from the systems of exploitation being challenged or
could not picture a world without chains." (p. 238)
justifications, and phoney excuses from those who either directly or
indirectly benefited from the systems of exploitation being challenged or
could not picture a world without chains." (p. 238)
This Christmas, I wish you a world without chains - whatever that means in your own life; in the life of your family & community; in the life of your country & of our world. Just like those who wish for "peace on earth", you must understand that a "world without chains" begins with YOU. What do you need to do or change to start breaking the chains that grip your life and the lives of others around you?
"'When one is deprived of one's liberty, one is right in blaming not
so much the man who puts the fetters on as the one who had the
power to prevent him, but did not use it,' wrote the Greek historian
so much the man who puts the fetters on as the one who had the
power to prevent him, but did not use it,' wrote the Greek historian
Thucydides in The Peloponnesian War in 431 BC." (p. 238 - 239)
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