Tuesday, September 14, 2004

Sudan

Read this heartbreaking post and tell me, how can we let this happen? How can this happen - people just eliminating other people? It's such an overwhelming tragedy to comprehend.

Looking at this map made things hit home to some degree for me. See all those little red flame looking things with black in the middle? Those are all the "confirmed destroyed villages." Can you imagine what it would be like to endure this? To survive this? To witness destruction of an entire people and wonder, where is god? where is the rest of the world?

Don't we have an obligation to be the voice for those without a voice? To live for more than just ourselves?

"First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak for me." - Pastor Martin Niemoller

"If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I?" - Rabbi Hillel


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