1. quoteinvestigator.com

    Mr. Dooley says the duty of the newspapers is to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable. In 1922 a trade publication about coal called "The Black Diamond" printed an instance with an anonymous attribution: [5] 1922 March 11, The Black Diamond, Volume 68, Number 10, New York State Retailers in Regional Meeting, Quote Page 219 ...
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  3. indivisible.org

    TRUMP IS NOT A KING—AND WE ARE NOT POWERLESS. Trump wants you to feel powerless. Do not fall for it. Republicans hold Congress, but they are not all-powerful. The only way they succeed in breaking the government, defunding vital programs, and handing the spoils to billionaires like Musk is if we let them. We are at a breaking point.
  4. whatweneednow.substack.com

    Jun 4, 2024The content is brilliant, but Havel's main point is very simple: Even in a world of persecution and state control, the individual is never really powerless. He or she always has the power to say no, to refuse to believe lies, and to search out other people who share a love for truth and are willing to suffer for it. Havel was never religious.
  5. "The job of the newspaper is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable." However the original quote , which appeared in the 1902 book " Observations by Mr. Dooley ," is much ...
  6. To be powerless means to be absolutely helpless. . . . This, oddly enough, is the best disposition for the beginning of a spiritual journey. Why is that? Because the deeper one's awareness of one's powerlessness and the more desperate, the more willing one is to reach out for help. This help is offered in the next two steps.
  7. en.wikiquote.org

    Dec 27, 2023Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. Oppressors develop a series of methods precluding any presentation of the world as a problem and showing it rather as a fixed entity, as something given—something to which people, as mere spectators, must adapt.
  8. goodreads.com

    "Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. ― Paulo Freire tags: inequality , neutrality , power , powerlessness , radicalism
  9. biblehub.com

    The word for "poor" is here dal, which means "feeble," "powerless" (see on Proverbs 19:4), and the writer enjoins the disciple not to be induced by his weakness to injure and despoil a poor man. Neither oppress the afflicted in the gate. The gate is the place of judgment, the court of justice (comp. Job 31:21). The warning points to the ...

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