![]() Whose hand at the foundry, whose plow in the rain,įrom those who live like leeches on the people’s lives, Whose sweat and blood, whose faith and pain, The land that’s mine-the poor man’s, Indian’s, Negro’s, ME. And we won’t be silent anymore.Īs the great prophet of the Harlem Renaissance declared during the Great Depression, there comes a time when we must say: The very fact that realities like this exist means that we are engaged in a moment that is constitutionally inconsistent, morally indefensible, politically insensitive, and economically insane. They are us and we are them, and we cannot be silent anymore. We’ve come to put a face and a voice on these numbers of poverty, to show that they are real people and real lives. We are not here to beg, but to demand what is fully ours and is every human being’s right. We must remind every nation, no matter how great she claims her gross domestic product is or how powerful she thinks her military is, that nations are under divine judgment until they care fully and lovingly for the least of these, the hungry, the outcast, the left out. We know that there are moments when, in the anointing, we must declare good news to the poor and recovery of sight to the blind. From Amos to Isaiah to the gospels of Jesus, we are told that we must gather a remnant of people who refuse to say yes to the wrongs of our time. Holy Scripture calls us to repentance in a time of crisis. We know that our greatest moral traditions in Scripture call us to mourning that refuses to be quiet in the face of wrong. We are bound to do that by the basic vision of the Declaration of Independence and all the promises of our founding documents. We know that when the nation is moving away from the principles of life, liberty, justice and freedom for all people and there has been a long train of abuses, we must correct the nation. We know that our great moral and constitutional traditions declare that we must establish justice and ensure equal protection under the law for all people. The abolitionists, those who fought against lynching, those who have stood for families, those who have stood for labor rights, those who have stood for civil rights and women’s rights and LGBTQ rights and the right for women to control their own bodies those who have stood for peace in the time of war, those who have demanded that children be treated right, and those who have demanded just immigration policies have had to come to these same streets and openly expose moral crises throughout our history. ![]() We are not unlike our forerunners who sought to mend every flaw in this nation. On Monday of this week, the National Academy of Sciences said more than 330,000 lives could’ve been saved if we simply had a policy of universal healthcare for all people, which is a human right that should never be connected to your job but to your humanity.īecause the many of people you see here today know these realities, this pain, this injustice and this death from personal experience, we knew that we must gather here, we must have a moral meeting in the streets.
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