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"'We the people;' it is a very eloquent beginning. But when the Constitution of the United States was completed on the seventeenth of September, 1787, I was not included in the 'We the people.' I felt for many years that somehow George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake." - Barbara Jordan Barbara Jordan + Sign up to receive our quote of the day via e-mail

Many are the torments of the wicked, but steadfast love surrounds those who trust in the Lord. Be glad in the Lord and rejoice, O righteous, and shout for joy, all you upright in heart. - Psalm 32:10-11 + Sign up to receive our social justice verse of the day via e-mail

"The church must never become a government factory, carrying on a nationalized industry of religion with the people as the bolts and nuts; with God reduced to the role of cramped advocate of current national policy. Surely the pages of history are replete and the examples in many a foreign country convincing that this kind of church-state union — whatever the original motives, or however noble the original purposes — winds up with a state that is less than stable and a church that is less than sanctified, and with the poor still hungry." - Glenn Archer Glenn Archer + Sign up to receive our quote of the day via e-mail

Jesus said to her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but those who drink of the water that I will give them will never be thirsty. The water that I will give will become in them a spring of water gushing up to eternal life." - John 4:13-14 + Sign up to receive our social justice verse of the day via e-mail

"One thing we know, which the white man may one day discover, our God is the same God. You may think now that you own Him as you wish to own our land; but you cannot. He is the God of man, and His compassion is equal for the red man and the white. This earth is precious to Him, and to harm the earth is to heap contempt on its Creator." - Chief Seattle Chief Seattle of the Suquamish + Sign up to receive our quote of the day via e-mail

"One way to begin to see how vastly indulgent we usually are is to fast. It is a long day that is not broken by the usual three meals. One finds out what an astonishing amount of time is spent in the planning, purchasing, preparing, eating, and cleaning up of meals." - Elisabeth Elliot Elisabeth Elliot + Sign up to receive our quote of the day via e-mail

God of the oppressed, we call out to you. Hear our cries of anguish and see the suffering of your people. Your daughters and sons are condemning each other. Help us remember our commonality in you. Amen.

Yet even now, says the LORD, return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning; rend your hearts and not your clothing. Return to the LORD, your God, for [God] is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love, and relents from punishing. - Joel 2:12-13 + Sign up to receive our social justice verse of the day via e-mail

"All that is sweet, delightful, and amiable in this world, in the serenity of the air, the fineness of seasons, the joy of light, the melody of sounds, the beauty of colors, the fragrancy of smells, the splendor our precious stones, is nothing else but Heaven breaking through the veil of this world, manifesting itself in such a degree and darting forth in such variety so much of its own nature." - William Law  William Law + Sign up to receive our quote of the day via e-mail