They Fought the Good Fight!(Fighting the Good Fight)
Posted in Democracy, Freedom, Great Souls, Sermons, War“Fighting the Good Fight.” Delivered on Memorial Day Weekend May 21, 2017 Joshua 23:6-11 I Timothy 6:11-16; 2 Timothy 4:6-8 Carlyle Fielding Stewart iii Introduction The Apostle Paul in the true warrior spirit counsels his son in the ministry Timothy and prepares him for the coming battles of ministry and speaks of fighting the […]
Violence and Hatred Will Not Eliminate More Violence and Hatred
Posted in Uncategorized“Some people so filled with hatred, resentment and anger toward other people they cannot bring themselves to empathy, compassion and understanding for them. They cannot help who they are, what they are and what they have become. Years of mental illnesses, social indoctrination, political group-think and political party “uni-quack,” psych and culture wars, racial, ethnic, […]
“Dissent Protects Democracy”
Posted in America, Democracy, LeadershipI feel proud to be an American especially today. I am thankful for the history and legacy of freedom in this country and also very proud to be African-American. I am thankful that our people have helped once again to win the day for America by speaking truth and galvanizing the most powerful resources in […]
Quotable Quotes on Power 4
Posted in America, Democracy, Equality, Jewish Americans, Leadership, Moral Courage“Dissents speak to a future age. It’s not simply to say, ‘My colleagues are wrong and I would do it this way.’ But the greatest dissents do become court opinions and gradually over time their views become the dominant view. So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today, but for tomorrow.” […]
Quotable Quotes on Power 3
Posted in America, Civility, Democracy, Leadership, Moral Courage“People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.” James Baldwin But the danger of America’s looming democracy crisis is much more than an accumulation of travesties. And it won’t […]
Stop The Lynching of Black Men in America!
Posted in African American Communities, Black Lynching, Race Relations, Social Justice“The attack on black men in this country has its ugly beginnings from the time of slavery through the hanging of “strange fruit” on lynching trees, to present forms of unmitigated violence and police brutality. No matter how prevalent such violence has become we can never accept its normalization. We must continue to work and […]
“America Needs to Finalize an Anti-Lynching Law Now!”
Posted in America, Civility, Compassion, Democracy, Good and Evil, Leadership“Between 1882 and 1968 at least 4,742 predominantly African Americans were reported lynched in the United States of America and ninety-nine percent of all perpetrators of lynching escaped punishment by State or local officials.” America needs an Anti-Lynching Law which makes it a federal crime against persons who intentionally or wantonly engage in or are […]
A Living Hell.
Posted in America, Compassion, Leadership, Moral CourageAs a person of deep religious convictions,”hell” is not a word that I take lightly nor is the word “evil.” We are living in evil times and the absence of true moral leadership from our President, the GOP and other persons have needlessly created a form of living hell for many Americans. Great leaders shepherd […]
It’s Not Just About Beating Donald Trump But Defeating Senate Republicans and Reviving The Progressive Agenda Already in the Democrat’s Political Playbook.
Posted in America, Americans, Freedom, Movements, Politicians, Progressive Change.Recently surging in the role of front-runner because among other things “he can beat Donald Trump,” it appears Joe Biden will probably get the Democratic nomination for President of the United States of America. Bernie Sanders has vowed to support Biden if he is elected but should not be cast aside for his so-called “aggressive […]
If We Don’t Stand for The Constitution We May Perish as A Democratic Constitutional Republic.”
Posted in America, Americans, Articles, Democracy, LeadershipThe Constitution of the United States of America is the crowning achievement, the piece de-resistance, magnum opus and capstone of American Liberal Democracy and our Democratic Constitutional Republic. It is the foundation and sacred writ of all that we stand and live for as a nation; the ganglion of American political, social and economic life […]