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Edler G. Hawkins speech, 1964.
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- Edler HawkinsListen
- Edler Hawkinsto
- Edler Hawkinsus, thy children. Our faces dark with doubt are made a
- Edler Hawkinsmockery in thy sanctuary. With uplifted hands we front
- Edler Hawkinsthy Heaven, O God. Crying we beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.
- Edler HawkinsSurely thou too art not quite, Lord, a pale, bloodless
- Edler Hawkinsheartless thing, with which calls great
- Edler HawkinsGod for thy silence is quite terror
- Edler Hawkinsto our hearts.
- Edler HawkinsWhat the mood of the Negro is saying
- Edler Hawkinsnow almost sixty years after his
- Edler Hawkinsearly terror, As it happens again in Birmingham New York Chicago.
- Edler Hawkinsor any place,
- Edler Hawkinsis that for the church not to speak, and not to act
- Edler Hawkinsleaves a silence that is terror to the hearts of those
- Edler Hawkinsof us, who being Negroes, were yet born into the life of the church,
- Edler Hawkinsand will die in it. And one hopes, we might add, die for it.
- Edler HawkinsIf it means agonizing to find the money
- Edler Hawkinsto speak and act and to enlist the staff to serve,
- Edler Hawkinsif it means bringing the church to the place where it accepts whatever cross
- Edler Hawkinsit is called upon to bear. So let it be.
- Edler HawkinsIt may be that the only way we can keep from striking terror
- Edler Hawkinsin the heart of our whole world is to become what we really ought to
- Edler Hawkinsbe: a church that enters the world where its obedience is
- Edler Hawkinsand does it, even if it has to do it in terms of it suffering.
- Edler HawkinsAnd if we're able, ever able to say, "We have overcome,"
- Edler HawkinsIt will only be because, as a church, we are willing to act, speak,
- Edler Hawkinsand maybe suffer in the areas of race, in the certain knowledge that
- Edler Hawkinsin the fulfillment of the American dream for all people, we have rendered
- Edler Hawkinsour obedience to God in
- Edler Hawkinsthis, our day. And for the Church so to speak
- Edler Hawkinsand so to act and so to suffer
- Edler Hawkinsis to believe that in the personal relationships of love
- Edler Hawkinsand brotherhood and justice,
- Edler Hawkinswe touch not only what ought to be but even more
- Edler Hawkinswhat is the deepest truth about the God of Jesus Christ from whom
- Edler Hawkinswe have said nothing can separate us. Neither principalities
- Edler Hawkinsnor powers, nor heights, nor depths, nor any other creature.
- Edler HawkinsFor this is the very ground of our faith.
- Edler HawkinsWe submit this for your prayerful consideration
- Edler Hawkinsin the hope that if it meets your acceptance.
- Edler HawkinsWe shall inch some steps further towards that love that died for us
- Edler Hawkinsand in which we
- Edler Hawkinsare still
- Edler Hawkinskept