<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:tahoma, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Calls to mind the phrase out of the Patton monologue, "Your job is not to die for your country..."</span></div><div></div><div> </div><div>"Listen to what is emerging from yourself to the course of being in the world; not to be supported by it, but to bring it to reality as it desires."<br>-Martin Buber (adapted)<br></div> <div style="font-family: tahoma, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <div style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); height: 0px; line-height: 0; font-size: 0px;" class="hr" contentEditable="false" readonly="true"></div> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> William Schlesinger <pvida3607@gmail.com><br> <b><span
style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Colleague Dialogue <dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, May 10, 2012 12:48 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Dialogue] Quote from Bonhoeffer<br> </font> </div> <br><div id="yiv966064023">Of course, sometimes the coming generation needs to see people going down fighting like heroes in the face of certain defeat! Or at least, taking the hit of what seems like certain defeat, and disclosing that certain defeat isn't all it's cracked up to be...<br>
<br><div class="yiv966064023gmail_quote">On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 9:41 AM, Terry Bergdall <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bergdall2@gmail.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:bergdall2@gmail.com">bergdall2@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid;" class="yiv966064023gmail_quote">
<span style="font-family: Times;"><span></span>"To talk
of going down fighting like heroes in the face of certain defeat is not really
heroic at all, but merely a refusal to face the future. The ultimate question
for a responsible man to ask is not how he is to extricate himself heroically
from the affair, but how the coming generation is to live." <br><br></span>I believe this is from "After Ten Years" in Letters and Papers from Prison. Terry<br><br><div class="yiv966064023gmail_quote"><div><div class="yiv966064023h5">
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 8:50 AM, George Holcombe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:geowanda@earthlink.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:geowanda@earthlink.net">geowanda@earthlink.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid;" class="yiv966064023gmail_quote"><div><div class="yiv966064023h5"><div style="word-wrap: break-word;">What was that quote from Bonhoeffer a few days ago about lost causes, or going down with the ship, something like that. I was trying to look it up and couldn't find it.<div>
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<br></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word;">Hope appeareth, but it is not your Hope—you do not have anything to do with it. It just appeareth. It comes as a stranger, as an alien—it just appeareth! You do not even know why you hope. How in the world could you hope when there is absolutely nothing to justify any hope? ~Joseph W. Mathews<br>
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