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| The Good Book |
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| Political and Corporate Greed |
In the face of greed, warfare, injustice, prejudice and corrupt, money-riddled political systems, is it appropriate for any man or woman of God, or indeed any person of any faith, to remain silent?
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| How is this happening in America? |
Are we committing grave sins of omission and indeed of commission, if we willingly preside over $10,000 corporate funerals - when we know the widow and surviving children will live in poverty?
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| Do we honor his life and legacy? |
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| "I have a dream" |
What would Jesus, Buddha, Martin Luther King or Billy Graham have said or done, in 2019?
Would they have accepted donations from war profiteers? Would they have approved of endless wars of profit and human misery?
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| Discarded American military hardware, worth billions of dollars |
Would they have stood silent as thousands upon thousands of innocents in Yemen are helpless, barred from travel, and starve to death?
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| One of 7 trillion-dollar American Aircraft Carrier task forces |
We have but one world to share, yet some people and some nations rob the poor, and build mansions on their graves.
Can we stand in our finery and preside over such gross injustice in silence?
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| MLK and Stokely Carmichael, Memphis, 1968 |
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| Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael), Yale Law School, 1960s |
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| Malcolm X as he stood defiant against racial violence |
Should this statement by Selassie, who unified Africa, not guide our actions as people of faith?
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