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6/8/20, 2(23 PM World Affairs Councils of America Mail - Your Wednesday Daily Digital Digest from the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia! Page 1 of 5 https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1?ik=972314accb&view=pt&search=…%3A1668495061497621720&simpl=msg-f%3A1668495061497621720&mb=1 Rachel Pastor <[email protected]> Your Wednesday Daily Digital Digest from the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia! 1 message World Affairs Council of Philadelphia <[email protected]> Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 12:14 PM Reply-To: [email protected] To: [email protected] A MESSAGE FROM CRAIG SNYDER, PRESIDENT & CEO Dear Friends of the Council, Consistent with its mission to educate the public about matters of national and international significance, and consistent with its original motto, “In a democracy, agreement is not essential; participation is,” we at the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia will not presume to tell you what to think. In the present wrenching circumstances of racial and civil strife in our community and our country, I would like to offer just a brief reflection on these principles, in the hopes of contributing in some small way to a process of reconciliation and reconstruction for our communities and country. Martin Luther King Jr. is often quoted as saying, “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.” We know most surely from the context of his life's work, however, that Reverend King did not see justice as a foreordained conclusion, but rather only as a possible product of the good works of good people. He saw the establishment of a more perfect union as the ongoing project of our country. In this regard, King echoed two British ministers who visited the then quite new United
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World Affairs Council of Philadelphia <[email protected]> Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 12:14 PMReply-To: [email protected]: [email protected]
A MESSAGE FROM CRAIG SNYDER, PRESIDENT & CEO
Dear Friends of the Council,
Consistent with its mission to educate the public about matters of national and internationalsignificance, and consistent with its original motto, “In a democracy, agreement is notessential; participation is,” we at the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia will not presumeto tell you what to think. In the present wrenching circumstances of racial and civil strife inour community and our country, I would like to offer just a brief reflection on theseprinciples, in the hopes of contributing in some small way to a process of reconciliation andreconstruction for our communities and country.
Martin Luther King Jr. is often quoted as saying, “the arc of the moral universe is long, but itbends towards justice.”
We know most surely from the context of his life's work, however, that Reverend King did notsee justice as a foreordained conclusion, but rather only as a possible product of the goodworks of good people. He saw the establishment of a more perfect union as the ongoingproject of our country.
In this regard, King echoed two British ministers who visited the then quite new United
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States, in 1834, and wrote, “America will be great if America is good. If not, her greatness willvanish away like a morning cloud,” and also the exhortation of his intellectual and spiritualpredecessor, Frederick Douglass, who wrote, “The life of the nation is secure only while thenation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.”
I’m fully aware that many other organizations are putting out statements which advocate forone approach or another to the broader issues of race relations, but I believe such commentswould be inappropriate for us.
If there is one thing which I believe defines this Council, it is that we stand in the sometimeslonely place between the opposing factions of the country and the world, and implore them tolisten to one another and seek to learn from one another. Then, we stand aside and let peopledecide whatever they want with what we’ve helped them learn.
Going forward, the Council will continue to do what it has always done—to provideperspective, to give a platform to speakers and ideas, to challenge its members and studentsand travelers to think more deeply, and to both champion and fashion civil and thoughtfuldiscourse around the issues that are today so top of mind, along with all the issues whichmatter to Philadelphia, America and the wider world—seeking, together with all of you,through the blessings of free expression and active listening, to bend the moral universetowards justice for all.
Sincerely,Craig
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