Lady Liberty cries with silent lips; we must be vocal: 5 ways to help refuguees
Betsy & Chris were discussing the refugee crisis so articulately and powerfully on Facebook yesterday, forcing me to reflect when I wanted to escape and ignore the photos, the story, the suffering. And then you focus on that little boy’s sneakers…and the magnitude hits you like a ton of bricks.
We need to do better. The world is flat: We worry about China’s Stock Market affecting our financial system more than we worry about another’s suffering. When one suffers, we all suffer.
Emma Lazarus’s poem on Lady Liberty speaks more powerfully than the terrible rhetoric we hear from the celebrity farce of these current and temporary presidential primaries: “Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,/ I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
Lady Liberty cries with silent lips; we must be vocal.
5 practical ways to help:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/5-practical-ways-you-can-help-refugees-trying-to-find-safety-in-europe-10482902.html
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