Just Wars

LeoCasey at aol.com LeoCasey at aol.com
Thu May 10 08:26:10 PDT 2001


In a message dated 05/10/2001 3:40:45 AM Eastern Daylight Time, owner-lbo-talk-digest at lists.panix.com writes:


> Name one person in the history of the world that has the moral authority to
> inaugurate death. Not political power, moral authority.
>
> Ian
>

Spartacus Nat Turner Denmark Vessey Gabriel Prosser Toussaint L'Ouverture Any inhabitant of the Warsaw ghetto

The list could be greatly expanded, but I think the point has been made.

Leo Casey United Federation of Teachers 260 Park Avenue South New York, New York 10010-7272 (212-598-6869)

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never has, and it never will. If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters. -- Frederick Douglass --

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