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“What terrorist fundamentalists lack is a feature easy to discern in all authentic fundamentalists, from Tibetan Buddhists to the Amish: the absence of resentment and envy, the deep indifference to the non- believers’ way of life. If today’s so-called fundamentalists really believe they have found their way to Truth, why should they feel threatened by …
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Moses Maimonides, the court physician to Saladin is quoted as saying, “Character consists of getting out of the way of fools, not in conquering them. Even if men insult me I do not mind, but answer politely with friendly words, or remain silent. I do not maintain that I never make mistakes”.
President Obama has revealed that he has in the past been mistaken for a car-parking valet, in a frank interview on everyday racism in the US. “There’s no black male my age, who’s a professional, who hasn’t come out of a restaurant and is waiting for their car and somebody didn’t hand them their car …
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United for a Fair Economy has released an annual report, entitled “Underbanked and Overcharged”, that examines the racial aspects of the American unbanked and underbanked crisis. 56.7 million adults are currently unbanked or underbanked, disproportionately Blacks and Latinos, and they collectively spend $103 billion per year on fees and services to predatory lenders like check …
The US National Academy of Science Report concludes that even draconian restrictions on childbirth, pandemics and a Third World War, with casualties similar to World War II (50 – 80 million deaths) would scarcely make a dent in the trajectory of world population growth in the next 85 years. Climate change, war, reduced mortality and …
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