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What Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. might say to Bono and US!

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King united people of all faiths and civil secular society in the battle for civil rights for African Americans based on respect for human dignity, and driven by ethical and moral standards, and so, I imagine he might tell US all:

If you have ears to hear; hear!

If you have eyes to see; see!

If you have a heart of flesh may it bleed for the least among us-all the "N's" of the world- for only in solidarity do "have it in our power to begin the world again"-Tom Paine


I beseech US all to be a part of "the change you want to see in the world" [Gandhi] and may we all plunge into the righteous flowing stream of BDS, seeking justice and peace through NONVIOLENT actions until Israel behaves like a democracy should!



And may a righteous indignation over hypocrisy in high places fill US all with the desire for PEACE/Shalom/Salaam and might we all feel within this paraphrase from Luke 4:14:22:

May the Spirit of the Mystery we call the Lord be upon you.


May He/She/? anoint you to bring glad tidings to the poor.


May He/She/? use US all to proclaim LIBERTY to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind,


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Eileen Fleming,is a Citizen of CONSCIENCE for US House of Representatives 2012 Founder of WeAreWideAwake.org Staff Member of Salem-news.com, A Feature Correspondent for Arabisto.com Producer "30 Minutes with Vanunu" and "13 Minutes with Vanunu" (more...)
 
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