Seeds

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If we aren't (re)humanizing the downtrodden, weak, and vulnerable in our own cities, in our own prisons, in our own communities, in our own schools, in our own families, in our most intimate relationships - then we must consider that we may be held responsible for planting seeds of genocide and slavery in our own nation and in the greater world around us.

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"God will return to us when we shall be willing to let him in...for God is everywhere or nowhere, the Father of all men or no man, concerned about everything or nothing. Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of man is not in his will to power, but in his power of compassion ('to suffer with, to live with those that suffer'). Man reflects either the image of God's presence or that of a beast.” - Abraham Joshua Heschel - “Man’s Quest for God”

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