Ministers Quotes



Sanger was not only anxious to work with Black organizations, but she hired Blacks in her own projects—a very unusual practice for the time. There have always been in America some Blacks who saw in birth control a plan to reduce the Black population. However, there are also always been some whites who favored birth control and other activities precisely because they might reduce the Black population. So what seems like paranoia may actually be a rational reaction to other people and forces.


The president was himself an evangelical Christian and he had gone out of his way to issue executive orders authorizing payments to be made for church operated social service activities where proselytizing was permitted. Many Americans thought bush had jumped over the wall separating church and state and yet some of the evangelical Christians kept insisting on more and more money.


Spinoza was one of the most feared intellectuals in human history—feared that is by the established power structures. He is the only known person who was excommunicated by the Catholics, the Jews and the Muslims—all were forbidden to read his works. He was the enemy of authority and advocated personal reason as the guide for men.


This problem in Latin America would continue for more than a century. This however, is the first suggestion that the United States should consider direct intervention to obtain justice for U. S. citizens—and businesses—rather than follow the traditional diplomatic procedures. We evolved from this to trying to control the government of the Latin American countries with a premium placed on stability rather than quality of fairness of the governments.


Spinoza was one of the most feared intellectuals in human history—feared, that is, by the established power structures. Spinoza’s ideas were considered so radical and dangerous that he was the only man in history who was excommunicated by the Catholics, the Jews and the Muslims. This quotation is an example of why the religions were so fearful of his ideas. Essentially, he stated that Priests, Pastors, Rabbis, Imams and all clerics have no monopoly on understanding, knowledge, or wisdom. Each man was to think for himself and clerics should have to prove their claims and convince people, not ask them to have faith in their ideas and instructions. Spinoza himself was a religious Jew and produced all his work to try and persuade others. He challenged all clerics of all religions to do the same. When people started to listen to Spinoza, the clerics wanted to get rid of his influence. Therefore they banned all from talking to him and above all banned his books and other writings.