progress compels us
we are to act
not to get it perfect
but to try our best
when we see injustice
when our neighbors are left
behind
to stand in the breach with
them
to go where we are called
progress compels us
we are to act
not to get it perfect
but to try our best
edited November
26, 2014
Progress compels
us – v2
Edited January
22, 2013
“Progress compels
us”
Edited January
22, 2013
“knock holes in
the darkness”
Edited January
22, 2013
“A Common Vision”
sermon by Adam
Hamilton
at Inaugural
Prayer Service (beginning at about 1:16:45)
and NPR story he
references:
Rev. Kyles
Remembers Martin Luther King, Jr.
“together we
strive”
Edited January
22, 2013
“freedom for all,
happiness for the many”
Edited January
22, 2013
“by the lash and
the sword”
Edited January
22, 2013
“Our Creed a Lie”
Edited January
22, 2013
“Endowed by the
Creator”
Edited January
22, 2013
new poem, “Equal
in our eyes”
Edited January
22, 2013
new poem “All
should be equal”
Edited January 22,
2013
new poem
“Unfinished Work”
January 21, 2013
“Work still to do”
January 21, 2013
“Our journey is
not complete”
January 21, 2013
Martin Luther
King, Jr. Day
and his final
speech before his assassination
and Inauguration
of the President
Barack Hussein
Obama
Invocation
by Myrlie
Evers-Williams
Inaugural Address
&
quote in the
speech, “"Our journey is
not complete until our
gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else
under the law"”
&
&
several poems
written in 2009
on the
juxtaposition of the
80th
birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.
and the
inauguration of Barack Obama
as President of
the United States of America
&
edited
January 19, 2015
Changing
the Wind – v3
(merging
edits to original and version 2)
Edited
July 22, 2013
“changing
the wind – v2”
December 7, 2007
“changing the wind”
Based on the comments of Jim Wallis on
Speaking of Faith, November 29, 2007
He was talking about whether to change politicians
or change the wind, to change the public opinion
which guides politics. He used the example
of President Johnson’s statement to the
Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. that it would
take 5 years for a voting rights bill but
it actually took 5 months to pass the Voting Rights Act,
after the March in Selma.
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