Or does it explode?"
And Martin Luther King, who said:
"On some positions, cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular?' And there comes a time when a true follower of Jesus Christ must take a stand that's neither safe nor politic nor popular but he must take a stand because it is right."
Where were you when they crucified my Lord?
Were you there to halt the genocide of Native Americans? Were you
there when Sitting Bull died on the cross? Were you there to halt the
enslavement of African-Americans? Were you there to halt the mobs that
terrorized black men, women and even children with lynching during Jim
Crow? Were you there when they persecuted union organizers and Joe Hill
died on the cross? Were you there to halt the incarceration of
Japanese-Americans in World War II? Were you there to halt Bull Connor's
dogs as they were unleashed on civil rights marchers in Birmingham?
Were you there when Martin Luther King died upon the cross? Were you
there when Malcolm X died on the cross?
Were you there to halt the hate crimes, discrimination and violence against gays, lesbians, bisexuals and those who are transgender? Were you there when Matthew Shepard died on the cross? Were you there to halt the abuse and at times enslavement of workers in the farmlands of this country? Were you there to halt the murder of hundreds of thousands of innocent Vietnamese during the war in Vietnam or hundreds of thousands of Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan? Were you there to halt Israel's saturation bombing of Lebanon and Gaza? Were you there when Rachel Corrie died on the cross? Were you there to halt the corporate forces that have left working men and women and the poor in this country bereft of a sustainable income, hope and dignity? Were you there to share your food with your neighbor in Liberty Square? Were you there to become homeless with them?
Where were you when they crucified my Lord?
I know where I was.
Here.
With you.
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