These agitated days, when black lives and people from “shithole countries” don’t seem to matter much, I am inspired to remember as a boy seeing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on the tv news marching in Alabama, surrounded by faith leaders and actively committed citizens of many creeds and breeds— practicing non-violence and truth-power, as Mahatma Gandhi called it. The social activist, serene and sage Dalai Lama of Tibet often mentions these two pioneering peace-warriors as among his greatest inspirations, and most of my friends and colleagues and I aspire to further these important message in our fractious, fractured world today. Won’t you partner with us?
