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Our nation and people are at the start of a long march to a new democracy, peace and to people’s power. The Saturday Free School for Philosophy and Black Liberation joins this march. Imbued with knowledge and courage, driven by the moral imperative to act we see the future and we see a new people in the making.
On this occasion of celebration, we greet and salute the people, the children and youth, the activists, the revolutionaries and democrats, the people’s artists and poets. We join our children and youth and proclaim to them, “There Is a Sky, There Is a Future”, but it can only be won through struggle. We do not damn the future—we greet it. We do not fear the future—we welcome it. Because tomorrow is today, what must be is determined by what we do now. We appeal to the moral instincts and the moral capacity of the American people and their ability for reasonable discourse. Like Martin Luther King Jr. we believe that the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends to justice. Like James Baldwin we believe the most important moral imperative is to love your neighbor as you love yourself. Love is the moral capacity to think in collective rather than merely individualist and egoistic ways. Love bestows the ability to see humanity and to recognize oneself as unalterably a part of humanity. To see the I in the We. Love gives to human actions an all-embracing and all-humanity character. Love aspires to build a world house where all who inhabit it see themselves as sisters and brothers. Love, as Martin Luther King Jr. insisted, is the sword that heals. We believe we can achieve our nation and achieve democracy in the name of the people. With humility, moral clarity, courage and love The Saturday Free School for Philosophy and Black Liberation invites all to join us in our celebration. |
