King’s letter as my sacred text because it has become a significant resource and tool in my struggle against injustice. writes: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”(1) I chose Dr. In his 1963 “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” Dr. I wonder if my daughters will still face injustice because of their mixed race, because of their gender, because. I am terrified by the biases and discrimination I see in my students and in the implicit biases I struggle to address within myself. My work reflects who I am, and this is the life I pray they will have someday too.Īnd yet, by the time Anissa and Amara are in college, I fear the world will not have changed enough. I want my daughters to know that I leave them every day because the work⨠I do speaks for my soul. When Anissa and Amara, my twin daughters, were born, my thoughts about why I work in Student Affairs in Jesuit higher education forever changed. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR., "Letter from Birmingham Jail" (1963) "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
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