We watched Gentlemen's Agreement last night. For those who've not seen it, the movie is about a writer who poses for eight weeks as a Jewish man in order to write a magazine article about Anti-Semitism from the perspective of one who's experienced it. I loved this excerpt from his article:
''Driving away from the inn I knew all about every man or woman who'd been told the job was filled when it wasn't, every youngster who'd been turned down by a college or a summer camp. I knew the rage that pitches through you when you see your own child shaken and dazed.
''From that moment, I saw an unending attack by adults on kids of seven and eight and ten and twelve on adolescents trying to get a job or an education or into medical school. And I knew that they had somehow known it, too.
They, those patient, stubborn men who argued and wrote and fought and came up with the Constitution and the Bill of Rights - they knew the tree is known by its fruit and that injustice corrupts a tree, that its fruit withers and shrivels and falls at last to that dark ground of history where equality and freedom remain still the only choice for wholeness and soundness in a man or in a nation."
Father, renew within me a tender heart and the ability to see others through Your Eyes.
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