Last Saturday, during our family trip to Washington, D.C., we visited the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial and the Holocaust Museum. Going to the two of them one after the other (a decision originally dictated by geography) made me keenly aware of how injustice and oppression have played out in various ways throughout human history, and how people both famous and unnamed have stepped up to fight it.
We have an ongoing and intersecting need to be alert for ways in which we can spread justice and freedom, both when it applies to us personally and when it doesn’t.
But Dr. King himself said it better:
