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They have vilified me, they have crucified me; yes, they have even criticized me.
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Schmidt, William (February 2, 1989). "Chicago Journal; Syntax Is a Loser in Mayoral Race". The New York Times. Retrieved on 2008-10-12. 
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A statement he once made in response to criticisms, alluding that he treated criticism on par with vilification and crucifixion.

 

Richard J. Daley

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Anyway, Everyman is then shown to have been crucified so don't think that it's an accident that this crucifixion, they found out that this applied. Somebody somewhere on this planet, back about 600 BC, found some pieces of R6, and I don't know how they found it, either by watching madmen or something, but since that time they have used it and it became what is known as Christianity. The man on the Cross. There was no Christ. But the man on the cross is shown as Everyman. So of course each person seeing a crucified man, has an immediate feeling of sympathy for this man. Therefore you get many PCs who says they are Christ. Now, there's two reasons for that, one is the Roman Empire was prone to crucify people, so a person can have been crucified, but in R6 he is shown as crucified.

 

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I go — as others already crucified have gone. And think not we are weary of crucifixion. For we must be crucified by larger and yet larger men, between greater earths and greater heavens.

 

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