Soul Food: Week of August 20, 2023

“Soul Food” is a regularly updated calendar of meditations sometimes questioning conventional wisdom & often suggesting eternal values …

Sunday: In times of universal deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell

Monday: A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything. Malcolm X

Tuesday: Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed until it is faced. James Baldwin

Wednesday: We are confronted primarily with a moral issue [equality under the Rule of Law]. It is as old as the scriptures & as clear as the American Constitution. JFK

Thursday: I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up & live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.” MLK

Friday: The Doctrine of American exceptionalism empowers the US to do nothing more than to act better than traditional empires – committed to looting & conquest. [It’s] an exceptionalism based on noble ideas, ideas that it holds itself to even when it falls short of them. Dnesh DSouza

Saturday: We don’t have to apologize for American Exceptionalism ... or Western values. Rick Perry

Davd Soul