So also a nation.
I am saddened by how divisive politics have become (although perhaps they have always been so) and how much people resort to riots and personal attack rather than truth and love. Let us not tolerate it, for it is never right to tolerate great evil, even if it may at times be necessary to tolerate lesser evils for fear that seeking to eradicate them should wreak greater evils.
Instead let us rise up in opposition. Let there be revolution! Not a revolution of blood and violence, but a revolution of our hearts, a revolution of love.
It is easier to demand that others change. It is more comfortable to blame others and to cling to our views as the only right path. Is it only fear then—and the ever-present pride—that prevents us from looking into the mirror of our own hearts?
I say let us dare to face it. Let us dare to ask ourselves where we are wrong, where we have failed, where our need to prove ourselves has obstructed the path of love, and let us not shrink from whatever evil we may find even within our own hearts. Only when we purify our intentions can we truly do good for others and for the cause of truth.
Will you join in our crusade?
Who will be strong and stand with me?
Somewhere beyond the barricade
is there a world you long to see?
Do you hear the people sing?
Say, do you hear the distant drums?
It is the future that we bring
when tomorrow comes!
Will you join in our crusade?
Who will be strong and stand with me?
Somewhere beyond the barricade
is there a world you long to see?
Do you hear the people sing?
Say, do you hear the distant drums?
It is the future that we bring
when tomorrow comes...
Tomorrow comes!
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