“An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., speech: “Birth of a New Age,” 1956.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They don't belong \/ No I in team
Closed doors \/ Open hearts
Not in my backyard \/ Welcome in
I don't care \/ How are you?
Stand your ground \/ Here, rest your feet
Scare starve segregate \/ Calm feed gather
Hate as policy \/ Love as calling
Torch-lit riots \/ Candlelight vigils
Fear of those others \/ Hope for us all
One way sows annihilation;
another nourishes mutualism.
Which path beckons \u2014
Me or We?
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