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Keith Pentz
@menno1954.bsky.social
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Early childhood education specialist—particular interest in infant and toddler development, Christian Anarchist, follower of Jesus, Mennonite, attempting to live a life of peace and love
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Keith Pentz @menno1954.bsky.social · 5h
I saw she associated with far right wingers…without knowing all the details I remain hesitant to pass further judgement…I just have difficulties with politicians receiving an award that should go to someone who truly is there for all humanity…not just someone who helped with a singular event
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Keith Pentz @menno1954.bsky.social · 20h
$2.10/hr…orderly/nurse assistant Butler, PA hospital…turning 71
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Keith Pentz @menno1954.bsky.social · 1d
Just returning home from a conference with an emphasis on infant and toddler mental health…some of us would have had different lives if we would of had early interventions and yet we are who we are because of what we have experienced
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Keith Pentz @menno1954.bsky.social · 1d
Ahhh…Malbec!!! A favorite
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Keith Pentz @menno1954.bsky.social · 1d
“Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”

James Baldwin
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Keith Pentz @menno1954.bsky.social · 1d
“But there’s a message there for everyone and it is that people can unite, that democracy from below can challenge oligarchy, that imprisoned migrants can be freed, that fascism can be overcome, and that equality is emancipatory.”

Angela Y. Davis
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Keith Pentz @menno1954.bsky.social · 1d
“The greatest single reason for [the] Christian church’s failure . . . is its failure to combat racism.”

Malcolm X
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Keith Pentz @menno1954.bsky.social · 1d
“The gospel of Jesus is not a rational concept to be explained in a theory of salvation, but a story about God’s presence in Jesus’ solidarity with the oppressed, which led to his death on the cross.”

James H. Cone
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Keith Pentz @menno1954.bsky.social · 1d
“Ignoring the poor is to show contempt for both God and humanity.”

Phillip Michael Garner
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Keith Pentz @menno1954.bsky.social · 1d
“The best way to take care of the future is to take care of the present moment.”

Thích Nhất Hạnh
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Keith Pentz @menno1954.bsky.social · 1d
“If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If there's shouting after you, keep going. Don't ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.”

Harriet Tubman
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Keith Pentz @menno1954.bsky.social · 1d
“You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.”

Shirley Chisholm
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Keith Pentz @menno1954.bsky.social · 1d
“Satan can never be driven out by Satan. Error can never be corrected by error, and evil cannot be vanquished by evil.”

Leo Tolstoy
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Keith Pentz @menno1954.bsky.social · 1d
“Practicing mutual aid is the surest means for giving each other and to all the greatest safety, the best guarantee of existence and progress, bodily, intellectual and moral.”

Peter Kropotkin
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Keith Pentz @menno1954.bsky.social · 1d
“We must talk about poverty, because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.”

Dorothy Day
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Keith Pentz @menno1954.bsky.social · 4d
A practical guide—

“The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.”

Galatians 5:22-22
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Keith Pentz @menno1954.bsky.social · 4d
“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars, to change the world.”

Harriet Tubman
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Keith Pentz @menno1954.bsky.social · 4d
“It is ironic that America, with its history of injustice to the poor, especially the black man and the Indian, prides itself on being a Christian nation.”

James Cone
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Keith Pentz @menno1954.bsky.social · 4d
“That’s all nonviolence is – organized love.”

Joan Baez
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Keith Pentz @menno1954.bsky.social · 4d
“Violence is essentially wordless, and it can begin only where thought and rational communication have broken down. Any society which is geared for violent action is by that very fact systematically unreasonable and inarticulate."

(from Thomas Merton's introduction to Gandhi on Non-Violence)
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Keith Pentz @menno1954.bsky.social · 4d
“Merely to resist evil with evil by hating those who hate us and seeking to destroy them, is actually no resistance at all.”

Thomas Merton
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Keith Pentz @menno1954.bsky.social · 4d
“Where there is no love, put love, and you will draw out love.”

St John of the Cross
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Keith Pentz @menno1954.bsky.social · 4d
“The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.”

John Dewey
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Keith Pentz @menno1954.bsky.social · 5d
Happy belated birthday!!! My October birthday is toward the end of the month…turning 71…it really is just a number of times gone around the sun…the body may look different, respond differently, and take longer to get from place to place but in my thinking, I’m still much younger…stay well
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Keith Pentz @menno1954.bsky.social · 7d
“Those who make peace sow the seeds of justice by their peaceful acts.”

James 3:18
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