A groundswell of justice, of caring
comes from changing the winds
giving new direction for the weathervanes
politicians with their wet fingers up in the air
catching the wind and where it points
altering the compass heading, the pole, the goal
by changing the wind
December 7, 2007
Based on the comments of Jim Wallis on
Speaking of Faith, November 29, 2007
http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/programs/jimwallis/index.shtml
He was talking about whether to change politicians
or change the wind, to change the public opinion
which guides politics. He used the example of President Johnson’s
statement to the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. that it would
take 5 years for a voting rights bill but it actually took 5 months
to pass the Voting Rights Act, after the March in Selma.
(Raymond A. Foss)
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