Friday, May 15, 2009

Thought for the Day: Authentic Moral Insight Leads to Action

When something is termed intolerable, actions must follow. These actions are subject to all the vicissitudes of life. But the pure hope resides first and mysteriously in the capacity to name the intolerable as such: and this capacity comes from afar—from the past and from the future.

John Berger, And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos (NY: Vintage, 1984), p. 18.

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