Catholic Worker Rebels
in 50′s with a cause

At the the Harley Davidson Museum we visited last Saturday there was a film featuring movies that focused on motorcycles, like “The Wild One”, “Rebel Without a Cause” or “Easy Rider”. The rebels in the movies, James Dean, Marlo Brando or Peter Fonda, just were rebels for no reason in particular.

Today a friend sent me an email of quotes about rebels, but these are rebels with a cause. Here are some: “What is a rebel? A man who says no” — Albert Camus “Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.” — Thomas Carlyle (Source: Essays-Goethe’s Works) “As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.” — Clarence Darrow

He follows the quotes with an article by Chris Hedges called No Act of Rebellion is Wasted. Chris Hedges is a well known war correspondant and author who will join group war veterans who will gather in front of the White House this Thursday to commit an act of rebellion against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. As Chris says: “Hope and justice live when people, even in tiny numbers, stand up and fight for them.” These are rebels with a cause.

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