Topic: Government, Oppression, Matches 2 quotes.

Wherever the real power in a government lies, there is the danger of oppression. In our Government the real power lies in the majority of the community...

Source: James Madison

Topics: Government, Oppression

Warning Against Foreign Propaganda

Last night I said something about the up-building of hate in the world, and about foreign propaganda with which this whole nation is being deluged. I warned that this propaganda does not give us the whole truth by any means. I indicated that hate, aided by greed, avarice, and ambition could overwhelm the world in another world war. I entreated the brethren as I now entreat you brethren and sisters to be charitable towards those people whom the propaganda would condemn unheard.

I besought the brethren last night, as I now beseech you, to consider whether or not we Americans who have gained the most of the land which we possess including that on which we stand by conquest, and whether or not the other great nations who have glutted themselves with the spoils of conquest, are in a position to condemn without mitigation some other nation which is merely attempting to march along the way of empire which we and those other nations followed. I beseech you not to put yourselves nor this nation in the position of whited sepulchers. I loathe war, I loathe conquest, I loathe oppression, I loathe the destruction of the liberties of men; I love freedom, I love our free institutions, but let us not visit upon the people themselves the sins of their governments. Let us not make a great body of the membership of our Church feel that they are outcasts from us because of the acts of their governments. Let us draw the distinction between peoples and governments. Let us be patient in our judgment, letus exercise charity.

Righteousness and hate cannot dwell in the same heart, no matter how great the righteousness nor how little the hate.

Source: President J. Reuben Clark, Jr.
General Conference, October 1938

Topics: Government, Oppression

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