Some of us have known these gritty realities our entire lives, and many of us have not. The good of a Jesuit education is that it moves us to engage these truths. To become critically active citizens. To be agents of positive social change.
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When the state of society feels like a page out of Orwell’s 1984, when it’s starting to feel like we’re back in 1964 or 1854, action is obligatory. We may live in the year 2018 but there are still freedom marches. Civil rights has never stopped. Black and Brown Lives Matter.
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People are still fighting for the dignity to live without fear for their lives. Children are still fighting for the dignity to live without fear for their lives. “This is America,” Childish Gambino tells us. This is the America we contribute to. This is the America we can change.
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On Sunday March 7th, 1965, John Lewis, a black man, just 25 years old, marched for his voting rights across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, was beaten by police and left for dead.pic.twitter.com/BuFd0dHYSh
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On August 20, 2014, at our very own convocation that same John Lewis, now Representative John Lewis, welcomed many of us to Marquette for the first time and invited us to partake in what he called a World House, a place where we ALL belong.pic.twitter.com/Yq1v16dRSU
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And in this house we have one chore. And that is to make necessary trouble. Make necessary trouble.pic.twitter.com/1Yn6WSLeJQ
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I walked where John Lewis marched that fateful Bloody Sunday 53 years ago. I felt the steel of the Edmund Pettus Bridge and gazed upon the path taken towards liberation once obstructed not by a Red Sea but one of blue.pic.twitter.com/UjbRqwvILk
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Here’s something you may not know about that bridge in Selma. Etched into a thin black sheet of metal drilled into the cross beams worn and faded from time are the words: Made in Milwaukee.
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Well, aren’t we all made in Milwaukee? You see we are not walls. We are bridges; Avenues of civil rights; Freeways of social justice; Paths towards liberation We are bridges. We are Milwaukee. And
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When we engage the gritty realities of this world, that shake us to our core and make us question our roles as meaningful contributors to the world around us; When we wonder who in the world will we become and if will we ever make the difference we dreamed of ourselves one making
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When we engage again and again in God’s messy work for justice, we may ask ourselves: Are we enough? Remember that we are made in Milwaukee. We are Champions of Jesuit Higher Education. And we are Alumni and Alumnae of Marquette University.
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Are we enough? We always have been We still are We will always be bridges. Thank you Milwaukee. Thank you Marquette. And thank you Class of 2018.
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Read the full text and watch the video athttps://stories.marquette.edu/the-gritty-reality-of-this-world-96a9c1cd4c71 …
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