Let Justice Roll

Network of Spiritual Progressives of Palm Beach County

“LET JUSTICE ROLL”
a January Conference to Address Election-Year Issues from a Spiritual Perspective

Presented by the NSPPBC
January 19, 2008
8:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.

Toussaint L’Ouverture High School for Arts and Social Justice
2501 N. Seacrest Blvd.
Delray Beach, FL

Tolerance is a better guarantee of freedom than brotherly love; for a man may love his brother so much that he feels himself thereby appointed his brother’s keeper.
~ Everett Dean Martin – (1880-1941) Source: Liberty, 1930

Free government is founded in jealousy, not confidence. It is jealousy and not confidence which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind those we are obliged to trust with power…. In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in men, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.
~ Thomas Jefferson, 1799

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
~Somerset Maugham

A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high duties of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self- preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property, and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the end to the means.
~Thomas Jefferson to John Colvin, 1810

Peace, in the sense of the absence of war, is of little value to someone who is dying of hunger or cold. It will not remove the pain of torture inflicted on a prisoner of conscience. It does not comfort those who have lost their loved ones in floods caused by senseless deforestation in a neighboring country. Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free. ~ HH the Dalai Lama

A tyrant… is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
~ Plato – (429-347 BC), Source: The Republic

Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of ‘emergency’. It was the tactic of Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini. In the collectivist sweep over a dozen minor countries of Europe, it was the cry of men striving to get on horseback. And ‘emergency’ became the justification of the subsequent steps. This technique of creating emergency is the greatest achievement that demagoguery attains. ~ Herbert Hoover (1874-1964), 31st US President

Pope John Paul II: “We can enrich our common heritage with a very simple
discovery that is within our reach, namely that war is the most barbarous
and least effective way of resolving conflicts.”