Saturday, November 27, 2010

"The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy and a thoughtless frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own for the children, and the children yet unborn."

Based on what we have studied so far in class, I agree with this statement. You don't have to physically harm someone for them to be hurt. Your words can hurt them too. The way you talk to them, the attitude you give them, the prejudgments you make of them; these can all be ways you can hurt them. Mankind is the only species that can kill their own kind with words.

Friday, October 22, 2010

Page 1256 " Let God blame me, not you, not you Rebecca! I'll not have you judging me anymore.

-In their community people were always quick to judge people but never themselves. Everyone seemed to live to lives and can easily be considered as hippocrates.