This must be the mission of every man of goodwill: to insist, unflaggingly, at risk of becoming a repetitive bore, but to insist on the achievement of a world in which the mind will have triumphed over violence.
Amid the darkness of the Paris tragedy, Leonard Bernstein’s superb 1963 speech on the only true antidote to violence. (via explore-blog)
And in Baghdad, and in Beirut, and Jerusalem, and Ankara… It’s been such an awful month.
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