WALLS
With so
much in the news these days about building walls to keep people out with physical
and legal barriers, I created some pieces that comment on why these obstacles
get implemented and the consequences they generate.
Pope Francis, in an audience at the Vatican in 2016 stated, “A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian.”
Although the Pope never directly referred to Donald Trump, the President felt compelled to tweet in response, “For a religious leader to question a person’s faith is disgraceful.”
The Great Wall in China, the Berlin Wall, Trump’s vision of a barrier on the Mexican-American border and now his mandates on immigration policy—only time will tell what effect these structures and policies will have on the arc of history.
As Martin Luther King said in his 1964 Baccalaureate sermon at the Wesleyan University commencement, ““The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” The quote was so important to President Obama that he had it woven into a rug that graced his tenure in the Oval Office.
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Is it a Fence, a Wall, a Partition, or a Barrier?
