IDEAS AND OPINIONS BY EINSTEIN

"You will hardly find one among the profounder sort of scientific minds without a religious feeling of his own. But it is different from the religiosity of the naive man. For the latter, God is a being from whose care one hopes to benefit and whose punishment one fears; a sublimation of a feeling similar to that of a child for its father, a being to whom one stands, so to speak, in a personal relation, however deeply it may be tinged with awe. "But the scientist is possessed by the sense of universal causation. The future, to him, is every whit as necessary and determined as the past. There is nothing divine about morality; it is a purely human affair. His religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection. This feeling is the guiding principle of his life and work, in so far as he succeeds in keeping himself from the shackles of selfish desire. It is beyond question closely akin to that which has possessed the religious geniuses of all ages." P. 40, "The Religious Spirit of Science," IDEAS AND OPINIONS, by Albert Einstein (Crown Publishers, NY: 1954, 1982)

CRUSADERS IN THE COURTS, EXCERPT

"The board [of LDF] was effective and influential, many of the relationships became personal as well as organizational. But, on the other hand, I sometimes wondered how such an elite group, whose members were so similar to one another, could hope to determine the best interests of the black community. We hardly could be said to represent a cross-section of that population--no one set of interests could ever have been best for everyone in so large and diverse a community. Still, we couldn't hold a plebiscite, any more than Charles Houston or Thurgood did, or CORE or SNCC could. There was no perfect answer. I tried to deal with the problems by forming the Division of Legal Information and Community Services, but in the end we had nothing to go on but our own best judgment on where right lay, assuming that where one racial group had been so badly deprived of equal justice, serving justice, even as only we saw it, would inevitably serve the interest of the entire group." P.401, "LDF Grows as an Institution," CRUSADERS IN THE COURTS, by Jack Greenberg (2004) The above admission establishes categorically that LDF had no clue what "the black community" wanted in pursuing its destructive litigation strategy of forced busing and magnet schools from the late 1960's forward. Neither did it attempt to discern the will of its presumed client, the black community, relying instead on detached elitists' seat of their Brooks Brothers pants convictions of rectitude.

'BETTER TO GIVE THAN TO RECEIVE' VERIFIED BY MATH AND SCIENCE

Bible maxim/verse "Better to give than to receive," Acts 20:35, proven to be true mathematically and biologically, over the long term, in a group setting; not one on one. It is the "fittest" survival strategy for mankind. Biologists show that generosity leads to evolutionary success www.sciencedaily.com

NATURAL GENESIS, EXCERPT

THE NATURAL GENESIS, by Gerald Massey, “Natural Genesis of Kamite Typology” introduction by Charles Finch (Black Classic Press, Baltimore, MD: 1883, 1998), p. 39 “The beetle in Egypt, during the Inundation, would have been washed out of life altogether but for its Arkite cunning in making ready for the waters by rolling up its little globe, with the seed inside, and burying it in the dry earth until the Inundation subsided. How they must have watched the clever little creature at work; no font of letter-type employed in radiating human thought could shed a clearer light of illustration on the idea of resurrection from the earth than this living likeness of the process of transformation into the winged world. How the primitive man observed the works and ways and on-goings of the intelligence thus manifested around him; how he copied what he could, and gradually found a line of his own in the scheme of development; how he honored these his early teachers and instructors, and made their forms the pictures of the primal thoughts which they had evoked in his mind, at length recorded in the system of hieroglyphic symbols and mythology; and the illustrative proofs are extant to this day. “One of the workers that caught the attention of primitive men was the spider, as spinner. In Inner Africa the ten-legged spider called Ananse in Ashanti, serves as the type for the Creator of man. This can be interpreted. The spider, as the first weaver, made the suspended woof. Heaven is the blue woof, the weaver of which was therefore the spider, according to the typology. The always represent Ananse as talking through his nose. The nose is an organ of breath. The god Knef is called the breath of those who are in the firmament. Ananse, as spinner of the blue woof above, was a deity of breath, or the nose as a type of life.”

RESTITUTION FOR AMERICA'S UNPAID LABOR

I do not malign wage-labor. Instead, I celebrate unpaid labor, still due lawful and unpaid restitution, which is vitally more important to me!

Voting more politically palatable than land reform/redistribution for unpaid labor/formerly enslaved

Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner continued to support land reform for freed people, but were opposed by a large bloc of politicians who did not want to violate property rights or redistribute capital.[227] Many radical Northerners withdrew their support for land reform in the years following the war. One reason for the shift in political opinion was fear by the Republicans that land ownership might lead Blacks to align with Democrats for economic reasons. In general, politicians turned their focus to the legal status of freed people.[228] In the analysis of W. E. B. DuBois, black suffrage[disambiguation needed] became more politically palatable precisely as an inexpensive alternative to well-funded agrarian reform.[107]-- Excerpted from "40 acres and a mule"--Wikipedia

ASTUTE STATESMANSHIP

PRESIDENT OBAMA ON SYRIA: an astute political move that: comports with the U.S. Constitution, blunts the lobbies of foreign and domestic war hawks, squelches dissent, calls out Congress and keeps us out of there and that mess! Love it!