To the students of color and others who have risked their lives organizing, educating, and protesting for justice in this country, in this city, and on this campus — You have shown us God at work in our midst.pic.twitter.com/xnCTjnAJSN
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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
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
And in this house we have one chore. And that is to make necessary trouble. Make necessary trouble.pic.twitter.com/1Yn6WSLeJQ
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
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.
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 #WeAreMarquette.
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
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.
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.
Read the full text and watch the video athttps://stories.marquette.edu/the-gritty-reality-of-this-world-96a9c1cd4c71 …
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