As we simultaneously celebrate the life's work of Dr. King, and clear pathways after the storm, let us remember that God is our strength (and we are the evidence). #Romans8: 1-39
"The dark side of the picture appears to make the future
bleak, if not hopeless. Yet something says this is not true. Back
on the coasts of Africa, mothers fought slave traders fiercely
to save their children. They oƒered their bodies to slavers if
they would leave the children behind. On some slave ships
that are known, and many that will never be known, manacled
Negroes crawled from the holds and fought unarmed
against guns and knives. On slave plantations parents fought,
stole, sacrificed and died for their families.
After liberation countless mothers wandered over roadless states looking
for children who had been taken from them and sold. And
finally, in the past decade mothers, fathers and their children
have marched together against clubs, guns, cattle prods and
mobs, not for conquest but only to be allowed to live as humans.
The Negro was crushed, battered and brutalized, but
he never gave up.
He proves again that life is stronger than
death.
The Negro family is scarred; it is submerged; but it
struggles to survive."--Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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