Tag: Martin Luther King Jr.
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Easter Sunrise Service at the Lincoln Memorial
We sat on folding chairs before dawn, in the still-dark. Abe Lincoln towered behind us. I felt the cold wind on my cheeks while I kept my arm around my grown-up daughter, to help keep her warm. In the distance, the early light silhouetted the obelisk of the Washington Monument with pink. We listened to…
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A Stone of Hope
I love the juxtaposition of slaveholder/liberator TJ and African-American/liberator MLK locked each other’s sights. This seems very truly American to me, an illustration of the “long moral arc of the universe which bends toward freedom.”