Diversity, Multicultural & Social Justice Quotations/Quotes: Diversity, Multicultural & Social Justice Quotations/Quotes.
Herman Melville (U.S. novelist and poet, 1819-1891)
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow-men; and along those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and come back to us as effects.
http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/language/quotes_alpha4.html
As shown long ago on Melvilliana, the "sympathetic threads" quote mistakenly attributed to Herman Melville derives from an 1855 sermon against sin by the Rev. Henry Melvill. Titled "PARTAKING IN OTHER MEN'S SINS," Henry Melvill's discourse on the text of 2 John 1:11 (For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds) was reprinted in The Golden Lectures Volume 3.
The central metaphor of Melvill's 1855 sermon represents the Church as the body of Christ. Re-assigned to Herman Melville, the Anglican preacher's deeply religious imagery continues to be re-purposed by activists for use in the promotion of social justice agendas. Let me know please if you encounter it in your next mandated training on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion.
Related post:
- Pseudo-Melville and Fake-Fanon, prophets of Woke Utopia
https://melvilliana.blogspot.com/2021/12/pseudo-melville-and-fake-fanon-prophets.html
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