Peter Maurin
Persons with mental illnesses often make connections between things we do not normally make. There is bit of this type of behavior in the observation tonight, although I am too normal or not crazy enough to make the connections of these three quotes clear. I do believe that the first and second quote somehow add up to make the third quote.
The first quote is from Howard Zinn, the renowned social historian who has been teaching us for nearly 50 years how to view history. In fact he was a witness in the Milwaukee 14 when we tried to justify our action as necessary nonviolent civil disobedience. It is:
Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is the numbers of people all over the world who have obeyed the dictates of the leaders of their government and have gone to war, and millions have been killed because of this obedience.
The second quote is from Mahatma Gandhi:
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.
The third quote is from Peter Maurin co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement who said in one of his ‘essay essays’.
To blow the dynamite
of a message
is the only way
to make the message dynamic.
Overcoming civil obedience with civil disobedience and working to our capacity will “blow the dynamite” of a message
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