Love and prayer are good tools. But, love is an action. This is why it is effective in social struggles. Prayer is a great tool, but what power does it have if no one has a voice and able to speak the truth to powerful people? There is a time to be in the background praying and in the front line working at the risk of life for others. Anything less is the coward's way.
"Racism and racial epithets must never be met with violence and hatred. We must use love and the power of prayer to overcome this evil." Yes, I agree with that methodology, Sinclair. But, I must point out that you cannot fight evil as you fight man to man. Evil balances and challenges the good we profess. It resides within our core struggling against the higher intellectual self because evil is illogical and self-centered and cannot get along with anyone not evil, and even that relationship is tenuous. Evil, like madness, needs to eat as every living creature does. Evil feed within feeds evil lurking in our neighborhoods, families and countries.
The fight against evil is an internal one, first and before any other struggle. So, deadly and close is our evil we quickly and instinctively turn to look outdoors through the window to see what others do. Sitting in that window it is easy to dream of the big fight against the injustices down below on the streets. But, if you are to walk the sacred path of the Peace Keeper your battle begins with the mirror your back is turned against.
- Gregory E. Woods, 2.15.14
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