Kushner on Miller.

He demanded that we must be able to answer, on behalf of our plays, our endeavors, our lives, a really tough question, one that Arthur wrote was the chief and, in a sense, only reason for writing and speaking: "What is its relevancy," he asks, "to the survival of the race? Not," he stipulates, "the American race, or the Jewish race, or the German race, but the human race."

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He never wanted us to forget that without economic justice, the concept of social justice is an absurdity and, worse, a lie.

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God, or the world, is listening, Arthur Miller reminds us, and when you speak, when you write, God, or the world, is also speaking and writing.

Posted by dwhudson at May 27, 2005 2:26 PM