Jim Larkin: Labor Prophet
Irish labor leader Jim Larkin’s combination of Christian faith and socialist zeal electrified the working class — and threatened to tear down the established order.
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Religion
“To me Jesus Christ is as real, as palpitant and persuasive as a historic character as John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, or Karl Marx. He has persisted in spite of two thousand years of theological emasculation to destroy his revolutionary personality, and is today the greatest moral force in the world.”
“The Summer of Love had given way to a winter of discontent.”
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“Corita was a Christian artist in the best sense, a sense that has underpinned socialist movements around the world.”
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“Liberationist Christianity found an appropriate conceptualization of charity in the Marxist dictum of solidarity with the oppressed in their self-emancipation.”
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“After years of subterranean rumblings, Robertson’s run dragged evangelicals into the sunlight of the political arena.”
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“The slain are really slain. Nothing will undo the violence that has already been inflicted.”
