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Activism Engage Segment

Author
PAUL FORD II 

BUTLER UNIVERSITY

When we learn to embrace our humanity, we inherently 

combat the forces that work to  dehumanize us? 

 

When we learn to inhabit the fullness of who we are, we resist 

what our oppression  tries to make us.  

 

When we learn to recognize our own strength, we challenge 

the forces that work to suppress  that strength.   

 

When we learn to utilize our collective strengths, we 

strategically disempower the systems that  strategically 

disempower us.   

 

When we learn to unify ourselves with our oppressed 

neighbors, we rebuild the bridges that  bigotry destroyed.   

 

When we root ourselves in our community and our collective 

liberation, we uproot the hate  that extends into our homes