Poem by Maya AngelouThis is a featured page

A Pledge to Rescue Our Youth
by
Maya Angelou
© 2006
Young women, young men of color, we add our voices to the voices of your ancestors who speak to you over ancient seas and across impossible mountain tops. Come up from the gloom of national neglect, you have already been paid for. Come out of the shadow of irrational prejudice, you owe no racial debt to history. The blood of our bodies and the prayers of our souls have bought you a future free from shame and bright beyond the telling of it. We pledge ourselves and our resources to seek for you clean and well-furnished schools, safe and non-threatening streets, employment which makes use of your talents, but does not degrade your dignity. You are the best we have. You are all we have. You are what we have become.
We pledge you our whole hearts from this day forward.


robertacarter7777
robertacarter7777 		Latest page update: made by robertacarter7777 , Dec 7 2007, 8:43 AM EST (about this update About This Update robertacarter7777 Edited by robertacarter7777

152 words added

view changes
- complete history)
Keyword tags: children's ministry
More Info: links to this page

Threads for this page

Anonymous  (Get credit for your thread)

There are no threads for this page.  Be the first to start a new thread.