"One wonders why Christians today get off so easily. Is it because unchristian Americans are that much better than unchristian Romans, or is our light so dim that the tormentor can't see it? What are the things we do that are worth persecuting?"

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Source : Clarence Jordan (2003). “Essential Writings”

Clarence Jordan

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“Personally, I'm very classic. If I'm going to wear a suit, it's going to be classic, black, and fit very well. There's nothing like it.”
“Liberty is a political firewall that limits the damage government can do to the individual.”
“As a teenager, even as a younger girl, I had some depression but no one really noticed that it was depression nor did I know in those days that that's what it was but I did feel different from other people.”

Source : "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. October 14, 2005.
“Every time I sit down to eat, I cast my lot: for mercy, against misery; for the oppressed, against the oppressor; and for compassion, against cruelty. There is a lot of suffering in the world, but how much suffering can be addressed with literally no time or effort on our part? We can just stop supporting it, by making different choices.”

Source : "Resolved: Eating Animals Is Indefensible" by Bruce Friedrich, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 5, 2010.
“The only real problem in life is what to do next.”
“An angry man can only get so far until he reconciles the way he thinks.”
“In a market economy with the division and specialization of labor, people use others as means to achieve their ends. This is the essence of market cooperation.”

Source : "Stephan Kinsella on the Logic of Libertarianism and Why Intellectual Property Doesn't Exist". Interview with Anthony Wile, www.thedailybell.com. March 18, 2012.
“In great things it is enough even to have willed.”

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