"My hunger for the freedom of my own people became a hunger for the freedom of all people, white and black. I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed. A [person] who takes away another [person's] freedom is a prisoner of hatred ... is locked behind bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness. I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity." (Nelson Mandela)
Liberation is liberation. All people have something from which they need to be liberated... whether they are a downright oppressor or the oppressed themselves.
We need to be liberating people, communities, -isms, churches, organizations... the list goes on and on.
This is the immediate task of our day.
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