Resurrect peace.

• Author: Sanchez, Sonia

HOW CAN I BIND you to responsibility in a non-responsible world?

How can I bind you to yourselves so that you know that the human face will triumph over the boot forever?

Perhaps through telling you that if we drop our twin seasons of privilege and inferiority, we will see a world free of myths and social ills.

If we act in the interest of world humanity--if we help improve life for our sisters and brothers in our country and the world--then we will truly move as human beings.

Listen to Tolstoy: "I sit on a man's back, choking him, and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by any means possible, except getting off his back."

This Earth can no longer hold those people who choke us, or who are choked.

We must finally say: I hear your daughter's laughter in the wind; I see your son riding on the morning waves. And I will never let these intoxicating ideas of race superiority, economic superiority, social superiority, religious superiority terrify the Earth until it swallows itself whole.

W. E. B. DuBois said, "The cause of war is the preparation of war."

I say, "The cause of peace must be the preparation of peace."

Can you say peace?

Can you resurrect peace?

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Can you house the language of peace?

Can you rise up at the sound of peace?

Can you make peace lighter than air?

Let us inaugurate a new day. A new way. A time for all Americans, for all people.

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