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Created: January 15, 2002
Latest Update: January 15, 2002
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Our Brother's Keeper . . .

by Malika Shakoor

Copyright: Jeanne Curran and Susan R. Takata and Individual Authors: January 2002. "Fair use" encouraged.

On Saturday, July 21, 2001, Malika Shakoor wrote:

Subject: "Our brothers keeper"

Hello Jeanne, I agree with Pat that we are "all responsible for one another". Ralph Ellison wrote in Invisible Man that, "Even an invisible man has a socially responsible role to play." Martin Luther King, Jr. in a sermon given at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery Alabama, said, "History has thrust upon me a responsibility from which I cannot turn away. I have no choice." James Baldwin, in No Name in the Street, 1972, wrote, "We are responsible for the world in which we find ourselves, if only because we are the only sentient force which can change it." Thurgood Marshall is quoted as saying, "The responsibility for enforcement of the civil provisions of the civil rights statutes rest solely with the individual."

(Jeanne, I know there are editing problems, but I don't know how to underline or italicize the title while sending an e-mail.)

All people must realize that the responsibility or the lack thereof is like throwing a pebble in a pond. The ripples (repercussions) are far-reaching and all will be held accountable. all quotes appear in My Soul Looks Back, 'Less I Forget, edited by Dorothy Winbush Riley.

Peace and Blessings,
Malika

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