Thursday, October 11, 2007

Compassion and structure

"True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring."

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Sermon at Riverside Church for Clergy and Laity Concerned
New York City
April 1967




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4 comments:

  1. Steve PuckettThursday, October 11, 2007 at 11:54:00 AM CDT

    Convicting quote!

    Have you seen Paul Louis Metzger's book, Consuming Jesus: Beyond Race and Class Divisions in a Consumer Church?

    I just received a preview copy from Eerdman's and it looks very good.

    Peace.

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  2. Waymon R. Hinson, Ph.D.Thursday, October 11, 2007 at 5:38:00 PM CDT

    Larry:

    Take a look at Dyson's "'I May Not Get There With You': The True Martin Luther King, Jr."

    It's a convicting read by an ordained Baptist minister and professor at DePaul.

    Waymon

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  3. AnonymousFriday, October 12, 2007 at 7:41:00 PM CDT

    This is an extremely powerful quote. I'm going to frame it and put it on my wall.

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  4. HeatherMonday, October 15, 2007 at 5:57:00 PM CDT

    How awesome that the words that sum up the convictions of my heart (and thus, path of my education and career) were spoken by such a man as MLK Jr.

    Thanks for sharing.

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