"Michael always turned the other cheek, and we have always turned the other cheek when people have gone after members of our family - that is the Jackson way," the statement said.
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" The Jackson family's statement continued by saying, "Michael always turned the other cheek, and we have always turned the other cheek when people have gone after members of our family — that is the Jackson way.
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"Everyone always turned the other cheek," Ms. Gaston, now a filmmaker, said.
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We have compromised and compromised, delayed actions, turned the other cheek, watched promises be broken, all while waiting restively.
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The Washington Post extensively detailed how music industry professionals surrounding Kelly simply turned the other cheek when reports alleging abuse by Kelly surfaced over several years.
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Trump could have turned the other cheek and sought the high ground amid the rumpus over the UK ambassador's unsparing memos about his character and dysfunctional White House.
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The island nation had turned the other cheek over the last two years in the face of Trump's efforts to end a detente initiated by former President Barack Obama.
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" Sanders turned the other cheek throughout the day, first saying in a statement, "My focus today is on a monumental moment in American history: the impeachment trial of Donald Trump.
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Maybe he should take a look at the politicians who took big contributions from these same drug makers and then turned the other cheek as the pills flooded in and our towns turned into war zones.
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Into the trailer now, barging in on the hunched woman and her comatose wife, Brad Pitt looked all CGI huge and muscular, he seemed at first to be menacing, but now he turned the other cheek, and turned it again, turning so much that he twirled round and round in circles.
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Danny Peary's "Jackie Robinson in Quotes: The Remarkable Life of Baseball's Most Significant Player" (Page Street Publishing, $19.99) is an extra-innings roster of observations by and about Robinson, primarily during his 10 years as a Dodger and 15 years of retirement and political evolution from, as Mr. Peary writes, a man who first turned the other cheek into an outspoken champion of racial justice.
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The scholar Walter Wink, in his book Engaging the Powers: Discernment and Resistance in a World of Domination, interprets the passage as ways to subvert the power structures of the time. At the time of Jesus, says Wink, striking backhand a person deemed to be of lower socioeconomic class was a means of asserting authority and dominance. If the persecuted person "turned the other cheek," the discipliner was faced with a dilemma: The left hand was used for unclean purposes, so a back-hand strike on the opposite cheek would not be performed. An alternative would be a slap with the open hand as a challenge or to punch the person, but this was seen as a statement of equality.
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In June 2012 Barrett's narrative nonfiction book The Gospel of Rutba: War, Peace and the Good Samaritan Story in Iraq was released by Orbis Books, a leading U.S. publisher of religious books and the publishing arm of the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers. The book was edited by Orbis publisher Robert Ellsberg, son of Daniel Ellsberg, the whistle-blower responsible for releasing the Pentagon Papers in 1971. In The Gospel of Rutba Barrett tells the story of three U.S. Christian peacemakers who were injured in a bad car accident in Iraq during the U.S.-led bombing of that country in March 2003. He chronicles how the western desert town of Ar Rutba, a Sunni- majority town under heavy attack from the United States, turned the other cheek and cared for the injured Americans: author-activist Shane Claiborne of Philadelphia's The Simple Way; Christian Peacemaker Teams veteran Cliff Kindy; and Mennonite pastor-activist Rev.
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