Stories
the narratives it tells itself
They built the institutions and then let them go.
A free kindergarten and a workingman's school from 1878, district nursing, Legal Aid, a children's hospital in 1891, the first Planned Parenthood clinic on the Upper West Side in 1950. Founders of the NAACP and the ACLU came out of the same rooms.
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The Scriptures
the texts that carry the stories — and everything elseFelix Adler, Founding Address (1876)
Felix Adler, An Ethical Philosophy of Life (1918)