Makosi

I'd like to meet:

MLK, YOUR MOM, BONO, DESMOND TUTU(alreay met him!)

"Through the cross of Christ we are drawn into the mystery of the Trinity. This is God's work on our behalf. We are made members of a kingdom governed by a politics of forgiveness and redemption. The world is offered an alternative unimaginable by our sin-determined fantasies."
--Stanley Hauerwas, Cross Shattered Christ, 31

"You can tell the people that if they succeed in killing me, that I forgive and bless those who do it. Hopefully, they will realize they are wasting their time. A bishop will die, but the church of God, which is the people, will never perish."
--Father Oscar Romero

"Education is a constant process for the liberation of human beings."
—Pablo Freire

"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."
--Mahatma Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)

"We must grow in love and in order to do this we must go on loving and loving and giving and giving until it hurts--the way Jesus did. Do ordinary things with extraordinary love."
--Mother Teresa

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
--Nelson Mandela

"For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is recognise that we are humans too."
--Desmond Tutu New York Times, 3 January 1985.

"I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of human rights"
--Desmond Tutu Today, NBC, 9 January 1985.

"Yet if God’s kingdom has come, it has obviously not come in its completeness. Every dimension of human experience remains profoundly affected by sin and evil. The consummation or perfection of the kingdom lies somewhere in the unknown future, and will come entirely by God’s power, as his gift. Until then, the church lives eschatologically, in a tension between the future and the present. It lives now in the reality of the age to come. The old age continues but the new age has begun; the new order is hidden in the old; there is a 'present fulfillment in the setting of future consummation'"
--Robert Webber, Rodney Clapp

"Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving."
--O. Henry

"Discourse is not life: its time is not your time; in it, you will not be reconciled to death; you may have killed God beneath the weight of all that you have said; but don't imagine that, with all that you are saying, you will make a man that will live longer than he."
-- Michel Foucault, (1972) . The Archaeology of Knowledge.Trans. Alan Sheridan.

"Finally, there is a fourth characteristic of power - a power that, in a sense, traverses and drives those other powers. I'm thinking of an epistemological power-that is, a power to extract a knowledge from individuals and to extract a knowledge about those individuals -who are subjected to observation and already controlled by those different powers. This occurs, then, in two different ways. In an institution like the factory, for example, the worker's labor and the worker's knowledge about his own labor, the technical improvements - the little inventions and discoveries, the micro adaptations he's able to implement in the course of his labor - are immediately recorded, thus extracted from his practice, accumulated by the power exercised over him through supervision. In this way, the worker's labor is gradually absorbed into a certain technical knowledge of production which will enable a strengthening of control. So we see how there forms a knowledge that's extracted from the individuals themselves and derived from their own behavior[:the Panopticon]."
--Michel Foucault, 'Truth and Juridical Forms'. In J. Faubion, ed., Power pp. 83-4

"No peace is peace, but that which comes through the forgiveness of sins." --Dietrich Bonhoeffer