quinta-feira, agosto 28, 2008

Sonho Recorrente


Martin Luther King
Forty-five years ago today, Martin Luther King delivered his famous "I have a dream" speech in Washington. His passionate and eloquent call for equality and tolerance inspired millions around the world.
Ripado de www.bbc.co.uk

On 28 August, 1963, Martin Luther King delivered his magnificent "I have a dream speech" on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. Below is the full text of his speech.
'I have a dream'

I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity.
America has given the Negro people a bad cheque which has come back marked 'insufficient funds' But 100 years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land.
And so we've come here today to dramatize an appalling condition. In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a cheque. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men would be guaranteed the inalienable rights of "Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness."
It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of colour are concerned. Instead of honouring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad cheque which has come back marked "insufficient funds." But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. So we've come to cash this cheque - a cheque that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.
Sweltering summer... of discontent
We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.
The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. 1963 is not an end, but a beginning. Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual.
There will be neither rest nor tranquillity in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.
But there is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice: in the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.
The marvellous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. They have come to realise that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall march ahead. We cannot turn back.
Trials and tribulations
There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights: "When will you be satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their selfhood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating "For Whites Only". We cannot be satisfied and we will not be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave-owners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.
Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed.
Let us not wallow in the valley of despair. I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
The dream
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed - we hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave-owners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today!
I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification; one day right there in Alabama little black boys and little black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today!
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.
This is our hope. This is the faith that I will go back to the South with. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope.
With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.
This will be the day, this will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with a new meaning: "My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring." And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.
And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania! Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado. Let freedom ring from the curvaceous peaks of California. But not only that. Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia. Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee. Let freedom ring from every hill and every molehill of Mississippi, from every mountainside, let freedom ring!
And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: "Free at last! Free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"

quinta-feira, agosto 07, 2008

cada um na sua...

Depois de uma tarde a ouvir opiniões sobre a questão do sofrimento e a ouvir interpretações do texto bíblico egocentricas, encontrei este texto do Ed Rene Kivitz e digo-vos que veio mesmo a calhar.
aqui está transcrito:


TUDO COOPERA PARA O BEM

E sabemos que todas as coisas contribuem juntamente para o bem daqueles que amam a Deus, daqueles que são chamados segundo o seu propósito. Porque os que dantes conheceu também os predestinou para serem conformes à imagem de seu Filho, a fim de que ele seja o primogênito entre muitos irmãos.
[Romanos 8.28,29]

A afirmação de que “todas as coisas contribuem juntamente para o bem daqueles que amam a Deus” pode apontar na direção de um manipulador de circunstâncias, uma espécie de solucionador de problemas, na esteira da crença popular que afirma que “quando Deus fecha uma janela, abre uma porta”. Isso nos faz crer que quando alguma coisa ruim acontece, das duas, uma, ou Deus transforma a coisa ruim em coisa boa, ou usa a coisa ruim para fazer acontecer uma coisa boa, o que no fim das contas dá quase na mesma.

Mas há outra tradução possível, mais coerente com o todo das Escrituras: “em todas as coisas Deus coopera juntamente com aqueles que o amam, para trazer à existência o que é bom”. Nesse caso, a ação de Deus não tem como objeto as circunstâncias, mas as pessoas, que, tocadas por Deus, saberão enfrentar suas circunstâncias. Isso me faz lembrar outra crença popular: quem anda com Deus é capaz de “fazer do limão uma limonada”.

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terça-feira, agosto 05, 2008

"neoliberalismo" para totós

tem tanto economista tentando explicar a vida dos pobres coitados,
mas já o grande poeta Chico Buarque traduzia o economês nas suas classes de economia de mercado 101, ou neoliberalismo 101, que na versão actual seria = neoliberalismo para totós.
cá vai:

O Malandro
>> Chico Buarque

O malandro na dureza Senta à mesa
Do café Bebe um gole
De cachaça Acha graça E dá no pé
O garçom No prejuízo Sem sorriso
Sem freguês De passagem
Pela caixa Dá uma baixa No português
O galego Acha estranho Que o seu ganho Tá um horror
Pega o lápis Soma os canos Passa os danos Pro distribuidor
Mas o frete Vê que ao todo Há engodo Nos papéis
E pra cima Do alambique Dá um trambique De cem mil réis
O usineiro Nessa luta Grita (ponte que partiu)
Não é idiota Trunca a nota Lesa o banco do Brasil
Nosso banco Tá cotado No mercado Exterior
Então taxa A cachaça A um preço Assustador
Mas os ianques Com seus tanques Têm bem mais o que fazer
E proíbem Os soldados Aliados de beber
A cachaça Tá parada Rejeitada No barril
O alambique Tem chilique Contra o banco do Brasil
O usineiro Faz barulho Com orgulho De produtor
Mas a sua Raiva cega Descarrega No carregador
Este chega Pro galego Nega arrego Cobra mais
A cachaça Tá de graça. Mas o frete, como é que faz?
O galego tá apertado pro seu lado não tá bom
Então deixa congelada a mesada do garçom
O garçom vê Um malandro Sai gritando Pega ladrão
E o malandro Autuado É julgado e condenado culpado Pela situação.


segunda-feira, agosto 04, 2008

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