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Tag Archives: Martin Niemoller
Early Morning Thoughts
. . . from Kayla McClurg, one of my favorite writers: “The world says, try to avoid anything that brings pain or, God forbid, might even make us weep, but Jesus says if we never weep, how will we learn … Continue reading
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It’s Time to Speak Out!
The New York Daily News has beaten me to it. For two days I have been wracking my brain for an appropriate statement from Hitler’s Germany to compare to Donald Trump’s demagoguery about Muslims. Today the cover of the Daily … Continue reading
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Tagged demagoguery, Donald Trump, Martin Niemoller, the least of these
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