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Today, July 1st, is Pauli Murray’s Feast Day in the Episcopal Church. ![]()
“Hope is a crushed stalk![]()
Between clenched fingers![]()
Hope is a bird’s wing![]()
Broken by a stone.![]()
Hope is a word in a tuneless ditty –![]()
A word whispered with the wind,![]()
A dream of forty acres and a mule,![]()
A cabin of one’s own and a moment to rest,![]()
A name and place for one’s children![]()
And children’s children at last . . .![]()
Hope is a song in a weary throat.![]()
Give me a song of hope![]()
And a world where I can sing it.![]()
Give me a song of faith![]()
And a people to believe in it.![]()
Give me a song of kindliness![]()
And a country where I can live it.![]()
Give me a song of hope and love![]()
And a brown girl’s heart”![]()
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~from ‘Dark Testament’ verse 8.![]()
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Pauli Murray was an American civil rights activist, lawyer, gender equality advocate, Episcopal priest, poet and author. ![]()
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As a lawyer, Murray argued for civil rights and women’s rights. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Chief Counsel Thurgood Marshall called Murray’s 1950 book States’ Laws on Race and Color, the “bible” of the civil rights movement. In 1966, she was a co-founder of the National Organization for Women. Ruth Bader Ginsburg named Murray as a coauthor of the ACLU brief in the landmark 1971 Supreme Court case Reed v. Reed, in recognition of her pioneering work on gender discrimination. In 1973, Murray left academia and became an ordained priest and in 1977, among the first generation of women priests and the first African-American woman to be ordained as an Episcopal priest. ![]()
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May Pauli’s life inspire us to stand with the most vulnerable among us! ![]()
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