One time Bartolomé de las Casas was recounting to a Spanish bishop the massacre of 7000 children. The bishop became bored and interrupted him to ask, “What is that to me and to the king?”
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With fierce indignation, las Casas replied, “What is it to your lordship and to the king that those souls die? Oh, great and eternal God! Who is there to whom that is something?”
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I appreciate this memorial about my father by @ggrenwald above any I have read today--for his comprehensive review of his bio & history, for his attention to themes generally overlooked about his post-Vietnam life, but particularly for deep appreciation of his human qualities.🙏
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Here's my @RollingStone article on Daniel Ellsberg, the heroic Pentagon Papers leaker who died today at 92:
"We’re Told Never to Meet Our Childhood Heroes. Knowing Daniel Ellsberg Proved That Wrong"
rollingstone.com/politics/polit
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