42 TODAY: JACKIE ROBINSON AND HIS LEGACY
On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson sent seismic waves across America with his barrier-breaking debut in Major League Baseball. He continued to create waves in American culture until his passing in 1972. Always willing to sacrifice his personal comfort and safety for the cause of racial equality and justice, he viewed himself as much an activist as an athlete. And so should we. Jackie Robinson is not just a ballplayer who broke the color line. Jackie Robinson is a civil rights icon who played baseball, and played it superbly.
This spring, an estimable collection of collaborators have come together filmmakers, writers, journalists, scholars and activists to celebrate the man behind the number and put the Robinson story in the proper historical and sociological context. In February, we will celebrate the release of
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He continued:
âOur forefathers, seeking refuge from religious persecution, believed in the eternal truth that freedom is not a gift from the government, but a sacred right from Almighty God.
On the coattails of the American Revolution, on January 16, 1786, the Virginia General Assembly passed the Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom â¦
This seminal bill, penned by Thomas Jefferson, states that, âall men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities.ââ
The 114th Congress issued a Resolution, January 16, 2017:
âWhereas American democracy is rooted in the fundamental truth that all are created equal, endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness â¦
The Greatest Economist Ever and the Winner Is…
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Ludwig von Mises
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Principles has had such a great influence on the development of economics as…”
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The revolutionary book that these three writers are talking about is Carl Menger’s “
Grundsätze der Volkswirtschaftslehre,” published in 1871 in Vienna, Austria. It was not translated into English as “Principles of Economics” until 1950.
It was with this book that the Austrian School was born and made economics a real science. After Menger wrote his magnum opus, he became a distinguished professor at the University of Vienna. For several years he taught the crown prince of Austria and was a man of great influence. By the turn of the century, the Austrians were considered the most dominant school in economics and were the first to take on the Marxists. Menger died in 1921, deeply pessimistic about the future of Europe after World War I.