We shall not weary, we shall not rest, as we stand guard at the entrance gates and the exit gates of life, and at every step along way of life, bearing witness in word and deed to the dignity of the human person-of every human person.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of vigilance and dignity in our treatment of every human being throughout life.
Richard John Neuhaus's quote speaks to the moral duty we have to uphold the dignity of every human person. It highlights the need for constant vigilance and commitment in our actions and words, ensuring that we honor and protect the humanity of individuals at all stages of life. It serves as a reminder that our responsibilities extend beyond mere tolerance; we must actively advocate for and witness the dignity of every person we encounter.
In practice
This quote can be used in a discussion about human rights.
Optimism is a matter optics, of seeing what you want to see and not seeing what you don't want to see. Hope, on the other hand, is a Christian virtue. It is the unblinking acknowledgment of all that militates against hope, and the unrelenting refusal to despair. We have not the right to despair, and, finally, we have not the reason to despair
Progress without the reasoned freedom to think and act is regression to slavery.
Respect for the dignity of others includes treating them as rational creatures capable of being persuadad by rational argument, even in the face of frequent evidence to the contrary.
If the cause of poverty is marginalization, the cure is inclusion.
Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method; life must have a freed handling.
The highest point of philosophy is to be both wise and simple; this is the angelic life.
That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.
At some point along the way, I stopped being a writer, and I became a black writer. I never used to be a black writer. I used to write 'Spider-Man,' 'Green Lantern,' whatever was lying around. 'Thor,' 'Hulk,' whatever. Now, if the phone rings or when the phone rings, it's almost exclusively some project that has something to do with my ethnicity.
The trauma of the Sixties persuaded me that my generation's egalitarianism was a sentimental error. I now see the hierarchical as both beautiful and necessary. Efficiency liberates; egalitarianism tangles, delays, blocks, deadens.
Industrial civilization is only possible when there's no self-denial. Self-indulgence up to the very limits imposed by hygiene and economics. Otherwise the wheels stop turning.
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