“The king of unity America needs is human unity, human beings united in the common purpose of just being human to each other. This humanity unity is what’s being tested by the violence in America today.”
Sargent Shriver | Wilberforce, OH| January 25, 1968
A girl is assaulted and beaten to death after leaving her mosque on Father’s Day. A group of congresspeople is shot at during a baseball practice. A community despairs after a police officer is found not guilty of killing a man during a traffic stop. These are just a few of the brutal events we’ve experienced as a nation in the past week. Sargent Shriver understood that until we look past the things that divide us -- religion, politics, race, economics -- and see the things that unite us, we will not end the cycle of violence we are experiencing.
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