Martin Luther King in his almost biblical Letter from Birmingham City Jail. Salman Rushdie emerging from hiding. Nelson Mandela on reconciliation. Fang Liezhe on human rights in China. The Moscow News Board of Directors, pleading for the simple idea that journalism means telling the truth.
People are never merely a product of the external world.
They are always able to respond to something superior, however systematically the external world tries to snuff out that ability. That is the sure sense, sometimes of the unlikeliest of moments and from the unlikeliest people, that we are creatures of the spirit. That free, dynamic, loving, creative, spirit of God is exactly what made us. Now, in the very best sense of the word, that Spirit infects our souls. We are free to hear the promptings of the spirit, and free to know that we can follow it if we choose.