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Written by Gerald L. Rudolph
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Sunday, 08 February 2009 21:10 |
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A few weeks ago, a senior Greek Orthodox clergyman in Israel attended a meeting at a government office in Jerusalem's Givat Shaul quarter. When he returned to his car, an elderly man wearing a skullcap came and knocked on the window. When the clergyman let the window down, the passerby spat in his face.
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“[To] be militant merely means to be demanding and to be persistent, and in this sense I think the non-violent movement has demonstrated great militancy. It is possible to be militantly nonviolent.” -- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, March 25, 1968, ten days before he was killed. |