We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people. from Letters from a Birmingham Jail
04284 – Words, Actions, Silence, Bad, Good
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04080 – Feeling Guilty?
Only good people feel guilty. Evil people rarely feel guilty. Only morally sensitive people struggle with the gap between who they are and who they know they ought to be.
03285 – A Loser’s Script
Many religious people think that it’s all a merit badge system—all achievement, accomplishment, performance, and perfection. The good people win and the bad people lose. Of course, once we cast anything as a win-lose scenario, the irony is that everybody loses. Why...
00981 – The Greatest Tragedy of This Period
It may well be that the greatest tragedy of this period of social change is not the glaring noisiness of the so-called bad people, but the silence of the so-called good people.