Tracy

“In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.”
― Thurgood Marshall

“ballplayers with their cleats slung over their shoulders, crossing the railroad tracks to the “nice” part of town to play the “nice” team. The rough team, depicted as the Cardinals, was labeled as “The Gas House Gang,” coming from the tough gas house district of town. Little did Mr. Daniel know at the time that the moniker would be forever linked with the most hard-nosed team in the history of American sports.”
― Doug Feldmann, Dizzy and the Gas House Gang: The 1934 St. Louis Cardinals and Depression-Era Baseball

“Trust him. And when you have done that, you are living the life of grace. No matter what happens to you in the course of that trusting - no matter how many waverings you may have, no matter how many suspicions that you have bought a poke with no pig in it, no matter how much heaviness and sadness your lapses, vices, indispositions, and bratty whining may cause you - you believe simply that Somebody Else, by his death and resurrection, has made it all right, and you just say thank you and shut up. The whole slop-closet full of mildewed performances (which is all you have to offer) is simply your death; it is Jesus who is your life. If he refused to condemn you because your works were rotten, he certainly isn't going to flunk you because your faith isn't so hot. You can fail utterly, therefore, and still live the life of grace. You can fold up spiritually, morally, or intellectually and still be safe. Because at the very worst, all you can be is dead - and for him who is the Resurrection and the Life, that just makes you his cup of tea.”
― Robert Farrar Capon, Between Noon & Three: Romance, Law & the Outrage of Grace

“Today, we have more information than ever, but less wisdom; more talk, but less listening; more things in the superficial showroom (celebrities are a good example), and less in the intellectual storeroom (that would be knowledge).”
― Cal Thomas, What Works: Common Sense Solutions for a Stronger America