Helping Brian read through court cases this week has really made me appreciate how much fun my own research is. While he is writing spreadsheets about septicemia, I get to read about Ben Reitman, a physician and self proclaimed "King of the Hobos." As if it wasn't enough to be Emma Goldman's lover, Reitman started Hobo colleges in Chicago and was active in the labor movement. He also taught a lot of Sunday School. I thought that his quote about religion was very interesting.
"My religious life may be a mystery to others but to me it is perfectly clear. They are mystified because to them religion is piety, morality, and inhibition. To me religion is love and service." (quoted in The Damndest Radical by Roger A. Bruns)
I am sure Ben will show up later! I think I am in love!
"lumbering our minds with literature..."
"Somewhere between prayer and revolution....:"
"This is what we were all doing, lumbering our minds with literature that only served to cloud the really vital situation spread before our eyes...I am simply smothered and sickened with advantages. It is like eating a sweet dessert the first thing in the morning. This, then, was the difficulty, this sweet dessert in the morning and the assumption that the sheltered, educated girl has nothing to do with the bitter poverty and the social maladjustment which is all around her, and which, after all, cannot be concealed, for it breaks through poetry and literature in a burning tide which overwhelms her." -Jane Addams, Twenty Years at Hull-House
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