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Rampant evil. ?The great heights reached by men and kept, was not achieved by sudden
flight, they while the others slept toiled upwards in the night?. ...
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swaying of ... good we desire we may not be able to attain; but the evil we dread ...
... Chaucer, in his female pilgrimage thought of women as having an evil-like quality,
that they always tempt ... icg, 2) This bigotry unfortunately was rampant at the ...
... Chaucer, in his female pilgrimage thought of women as having an evil-like quality,
that they always tempt ... icg, 2) This bigotry unfortunately was rampant at the ...
Submitted by leaftye on April 29, 2007
Category: American History
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“The great heights reached by men and kept, was not achieved by sudden flight, they while the others slept toiled upwards in the night”. While Saint Augustine was directly referring to an uplifting of society, society will fall from great heights without constant toil. The failure to oppose of unjust laws doesn’t merely allow things to remain the same over time, but causes a steady march into increasingly unjust laws. The acceptance of unjust laws allows [tyrants to] a structure that implements increasingly unjust laws until an intervening group pushes for reform.
A society tolerant of oppression can fall into a relationship referred to by Martin Buber as Ich-Es, or “I-It”, where an individual or a small group would seen as an object to be used, and take utilized to meet an objective without regard to their welfare. It is difficult to understand how a large group can accept oppression from a smaller, even less powerful group without understanding the benefits offered to the oppressed.
In the late 1500’s, England worked to conquer Ireland, and gain a legal right over her lands. England coerced the Lords of Ireland to give the rights of their lands to England in a program called “surrender and re-grant” with negotiations backed by military threats. The Lords had had all rights to their land, except that they weren’t permitted to transfer ownership. In exchange for safety a pardon of dubious war crimes, the Lords were demoted from petit kings to English-style Nobles that were little more than managers of their ancestral lands. The Irish choose the limited power of their new titles rather than fight for the rights they previously had. Soon afterwards, the Lord Deputy of Ireland, an English representative for Ireland, restricted the freedom of the Irish leadership and brought new threats against them as retaliation for resisting them in war they had been pardoned for in the “surrender and re-grant” program. A few years later,...
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