“Many people would rather die than think, infact most do.” - Bertrand Russell
Few days back The Endowment Department of Andhra Pradesh (Warangal) decided they will establish “Institute of Temple Management”, which would offer courses & will train people for managing temple activities effectively. Facilities like “Sarva darsanam” & ”prasadam” for Rs 5 will be provided at all the 34,000 temples in the state. (Indian Express 13th April, 2008) i.e. to visit temples for Darsanam you need to pay!!
I was wondering there are not even half the numbers of secondary schools in the state!! Total number of secondary schools in Andhra Pradesh according to National Information Centre is not more than 15000 (approx.) (about 10000 in rural area & 5000 in urban area)!!!
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Theragatha 12.2
In a lowly family I was born,
poor, with next to no food.
My work was degrading:
I gathered the spoiled,
the withered flowers from shrines
and threw them away.
People found me disgusting,
despised me, disparaged me.
Lowering my heart,
I showed reverence to many.
Then I saw the One Self-awakened,
arrayed with a squadron of monks,
the Great Hero, entering the city,
supreme, of the Magadhans.
Throwing down my carrying pole,
I approached him to do reverence.
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28 August 1963
Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.
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 today, 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 their captivity.
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12 April 1964 in Detroit, Michigan
Mr. Moderator, Reverend Cleage, Brother Lomax, brothers and sisters, and friends - and I see some enemies. In fact, I think we’d be fooling ourselves if we had an audience this large and didn’t realize that there were some enemies present.
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Screen interviews from “The Negro and the American Promise”, produced by Boston public television station WGBH in spring 1963 (the program aired in a climate of racial conflict, just months after Alabama governor George Wallace’s defiant support of “segregation forever”, and before the March on Washington) and hosted by Dr. Kenneth Clark psychology professor, City College of New York. Interviewee: Martin Luther King Baptist minister, Atlanta, Georgia. (Reverend Martin Luther King responds to Malcolm X’s criticisms of his philosophy.)
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