@DanielPinchbeck Quran 34:34: "We never sent a warner to a community but the affluent say: ‘We reject what you were sent with.’" Heschel: "The hunger of the powerful knows no satiety. Power exalts itself & is incapable of yielding to any transcendent judgment; it ‘listens to no voice.’ (Zep.3:2)"
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Copy of tweet and image: Here’s Rev. Dr. MLK Jr.’s closest non-black ally, Heschel: “Neither words of persuasion nor threats of castigation will have any effect. Something greater than prophetic words, namely, an eschatological event, will be necessary to silence the arrogance of man.” Image of head of Jesus, crowned with thorns. Calligraphy: Poor People's Campaign The Light Of Thy Being Has Dawned Upon The Horizon Of My Being And There Will Be No Sunset Monsur Hallaj The Martyr of Islam
@bearspeaks Jim Corbett, in response, speaking to the Quixotic Principle: “To open the way, a cultural breakthrough need not involve masses of people, but must be done decisively by someone"; together with Helen Caldicott: "Where American media goes, so goes the Earth." As such.
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Copy of tweet thread: CEOs on their yachts drinking thousand dollar bottles of champagne getting economic anxiety over the idea of paying their workers like $5 more an hour. Was it Cannes? I forget now. But I do recall the bankers bringing in sex workers in motor launches. Deal-making. QT: · 1/ Trained as an investment banker, I began my working life as a financial journalist in the richest square mile on the face of the planet. My brief? International-capital-markets primary-market syndication, central bank regulation, and sovereign debt.