Building the Beloved Community (MLK Sunday) | Tarell Lewis & Jake Haber

Check out this special conversation between Tarell Lewis and Jake Haber as they explore the intersection of spirituality & race, the power of sharing our stories, and the healing we experience in community.

 

Quotes:

 

Martin Luther King Jr.:

“True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice.”

 

Robin DiAngelo:

“White privilege allows white people to navigate life in a white-dominant society with relative ease and minimal stress about race.” 

 

Matt Kahn:

“Victimhood is a state of being affected by the choices of others, while refusing to consider the options at hand. Predatory behavior signifies feeling so shut down by the wounds of the past that we attempt to take away the choices of others to feel a depth of control that will never be found. Empowerment is recognizing how everything is here to help you make the most inspired heartfelt decisions that further your soul’s expansion, despite how dastardly or disheartening any moment seems to be”

 

Desmond Tutu:

“When we see others as less than ourselves, we deny the God in them—and the God in ourselves.”

 

Cornel West:

“Justice is what love looks like in public.”

 

Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel:

“Justice is not an abstraction or a value among many, but a way of being, a command to restore dignity to those who have been diminished.”

 

Martin Luther King Jr.:

“The end is reconciliation; the end is redemption; the end is the creation of the beloved community.”

 

“Evil may so shape events that Caesar will occupy a palace and Christ a cross, but that same Christ will rise up and splithistory into A.D. and B.C. so that even the life of Caesar must be dated by his name. Yes, the moral arc of the universe is long, but it bends toward justice”