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Sharecroppers Revolt: Vorst's 1939 painting for the WPA
In the heady 1960s never did I think to see such disparity again for we were becoming a more just, a more kind and a more inclusive society.
"Jesus wept" (John 11:35)
Jesus wept, for Jesus had compassion. He wept even though He knew He would soon fix the cause for weeping.
Sadly, unlike Jesus raising the four-day dead Lazarus, no one is coming to raise our dying democracy—no one except those who do not prostrate themselves before the cruel, cowardly and heartless thugs who have seized our government.
Benjamin Franklin’s reply of “A Republic, if you can keep it.” to the question of “…what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?” has not been in such doubt for a very long time.
Happy Fourth of July