Showing posts with label bleeeding-heart conservatives. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bleeeding-heart conservatives. Show all posts

Thursday, February 7, 2008

This Week's Quote

I found this provocative and worth thinking about, rather than dismissing it......polarization around various causes does not work and leads, often, to violence....


"Bleeding-heart liberals could accomplish far more if they reached out to build common cause with bleeding-heart conservatives."

- Columnist Nicholas Kristof, in an article titled, "Evangelicals a Liberal Can Love." One example he cites: "In parts of Africa where bandits and warlords shoot or rape anything that moves, you often find that the only groups still operating are Doctors Without Borders and religious aid workers: crazy doctors and crazy Christians."(Source: The New York Times)