Dear ones, as promised I share another portion of my transcription of what I heard from Sister Ruby Sales during a radio interview with Dr. Wilmer Leon. (I'm excited to report that since I first posted a section of this interview, I have had the great honor of speaking with Sister Sales and she has agreed to lead a January Deeper Change Forum and follow-up workshop in the New Haven area on January 25 & 26, 2018! More info soon at www.ceio.org/deeper-change). So grateful for this wisdom:
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"...any movement in the 21st century that seeks to do
systemic and core changes must be spiritual in nature. I didn’t say religious. I said “spiritual in nature” – that must deal
with the inner and outer souls of white America – what they believe and think
inside of themselves and how they live in the world. It must be able to heal the chasm between
what they think and how they live in life.
And so that, no social justice movement without dealing with
what Martin Luther King reminded us, 'unless that movement involved a
transformation – a revolution of values – every movement would just simply
recycle the same old values and we will have to start over and over again.'
Because until we can get rid of the polluted
spirituality, spiritual malformation that gave rise to capitalism, that gave
rise to enslavement, that gave rise to the genocide of Native American people,
that gave rise to lynching and hangings, that gives rise to state-sanctioned
murder, that gives rise to foreign policy that is anti-human and death driven,
that gives rise to the hunger for other people’s lands and possessions. Until we can get rid of that spiritual
malformation we will just be repeating the work over and over." ~ Just a small portion of this amazing interview. Inside the Issues with Dr. Wilmer Leon (August 26, 2017)
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