Violence is done when parents insult children, when teachers demean students, when supervisors treat employees as disposable means to economics ends, when physicians treat patients as objects, when people condemn gays and lesbians ‘in the name of God’, when racists live by the belief that people with a different skin colour are less than human. And just as physical violence may lead to bodily death, spiritual violence causes death in other guises – the death of the sense of self, of trust in others, of risk taking on behalf of creativity, of commitment to the common good. If obituaries were written for deaths of this kind, every daily newspaper would be a tome. - Parker J Palmer
Posted on: Wed, 07 May 2014 05:23:00 +0000
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