FUSsa-talk Mailing List: Fwd: The moral minority

[Robert Tapp (tappx001]

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> From: Robert Tapp <tappx001 [at] umn.edu>
> Date: August 9, 2010 5:30:51 PM CDT
> To: Humanist Institute Discussion Group Discussion Group <hidisc [at] 
> humanistinstitute.org>
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> A powerful speech last week by Chris Hedges leads me to propose this new 
> designation. Most of us, most of the time, adopt behavior patterns that are 
> comfortable and common -- and often describe that as <living morally>.  But 
> in fact moral progress, viewed retrospectively, has always come from the 
> thoughts and actions of the courageous few. Sometimes even the solitary 
> individual who sees beyond the customary and conventional to a new necessary 
> that might become possible. Paine, Parker, Whitman, Truth, Thoreau, Twain, 
> Stanton, Gandhi, Shaw, Lester, Mandela, Ellsberg, King, Kyi.
> 
> Hedges has a list too. Whom else should we be adding -- and honoring -- and 
> making better known???
> 
>       http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/08/09
> 
> Bob
>