Oscar Romero spoke often about the need for all of us to fight injustice. He believed that God was with those who suffered and stood by and supported those who took a stand for what was right. Romero gave his life for those suffering in El Salvador, but his words about justice ring true in America's own struggle with civil rights.
The 8th graders of the Arrupe Division have learned about Romero and his steadfast faith in religion class and now they are connecting his words to the American Civil Rights Movement in social studies class. By examining these case studies we can all deepen our commitment to fighting injustices thereby drawing us closer to God.
“We know that every effort to improve society, above all when society is so full of injustice and sin, is an effort that God blesses; that God wants; that God demands of us.”
ReplyDeleteThis quote relates to the topic of Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education because it is explaining how God wants us to improve the injustices of society. The case Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education was about this same issue. The Supreme Court ruled that school segregation was illegal, but the problem was that there was no more de jure segregation in the school system, but schools were still unequal due to de facto segregation. Swann brought this case to court, and the district court saw some of the actions of the school board discriminatory. The case was appealed until the Supreme Court, where then the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Swann. This case was one of the first cases to introduce the idea of bussing.
I see Romero’s works living out in my topic because people were taking a stand against the unfairness in schools and doing something about it. Oscar Romero did the same thing when he witnessed all of the cruelty that was being done to his people. If people did not take a stand for the injustices that were happening in both the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school district and other schools across the country, public schools would probably not have been the same as they are today.
“We know that every effort to improve society, above all when society is so full of injustice and sin, is an effort that God blesses; that God wants; that God demands of us.”
ReplyDeleteThis quote best relates to my topic, Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, because it was a case trying to abolish segregation. Segregation is an injustice and worsened society. Therefore, this case was working to improve society and rid it of injustice and sin. This case ended in a result which changed society in a positive way towards integration. It was the start of a national movement because it brought up many great ideas which became popular and were used around the world to end segregation everywhere. This is how I know that God blessed this case and why it best relates to this quote by Oscar Romero.
" We know that every effort to improve society, above all when society is so full of injustice and sin, is an effort that God blesses; that God wants; that god demands of us"
ReplyDeleteThis quote by Oscar Romero best relates to my topic the Black Panthers because of their We want, We believe statements. In these statements there are asking for better things from the government. to improve the society of the black and to be free. In there case there is injustice in their society because they do not have the chance that they should get. In this case God would want every one to be equal and the Black Panthers in a way are speaking the word of God saying We want freedom because God wants freedom for all of his people. God is also playing a big part of what they do because they want good living for the blacks and I am sure that God would want that for all of his people. That is why this quote relates to my topic.
"Brothers, you came from our own people. You are killing your own brothers. Any human order to kill must be subordinate to the law of God, which says, 'Thou shall not kill'. No soldier is obliged to obey an order contrary to the law of God. No one has to obey an immoral law. It is high time you obeyed your consciences rather than sinful orders."
ReplyDeleteThis quote heavily relates to the people who took orders and were segregated during the Montgomery Bus Boycott. I very deeply believe that everyone riding on the bus that day, especialy the bus driver, knew that what they were doing wrong, an "immoral law." Oscar Romero originaly intended this message for the members of the Salvadoran Army. They were taking orders to kill, rather than following their conscience. In the bible, it states that everyone on Earth are brothers, and should be treated as you would your neighbor. In terms of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, "killing" could mean the killing of the souls of all the African-American people affected by segregation. Although not phsically killing, the killing of a person's soul can do a lot of damage. From another point-of-view, Rosa Parks did exactly what Oscar Romero would have wanted her to do. She received an order to leave her seat, so that a white person could sit there. But instead of obeying the order, Rosa Parks followed her conscience, and stood up for herself. I feel that this quote is very important to the Montgomery Bus Boycott, because if Rosa Parks had not listened to her conscience, this would never have happened. Also, because the Montgomery Bus Boycott was a very key part of the Civil Rights Movement, who knows where America would be today had Rosa Parks simply obeyed the orders she was given.
this last comment was posted by Tyler Walsh
ReplyDeleteI will not tire of declaring that if we really want an effective
ReplyDeleteend to violence we must remove the violence that lies at the root
of all violence: structural violence, social injustice, exclusion
of citizens from the management of the country, repression. All
this is what constitutes the primal cause, from which the rest
flows naturally.
This relates to my topic because this is about violence. My topic is the murder of Megar Evers. This quote shows that violence does not solve anything. Because this just shows that people were more motivated to help other African American fight for rights because they saw how horrific this behavior is. That is why this quote relates to the Murder of Megar Evers.
''Brothers, you came from our own people. You are killing your own brothers. Any human order to kill must be subordinate to the law of God, which says, 'Thou Shalt not kill'. No soldier is obliged to obey an order contrary to the law of God. No one has to obey an immoral law. It is high time you obeyed your consciences rather than sinful orders.''
ReplyDeleteThis quote relates completely to my topic, the Megar Evers case. This quote talks about people killing each other even though we are from one God and should respect one another because of this.It also says you shouldn't do what your conscience or society tells you to, but what God states and what's truly right. White supremacist shot Medgar Evers because he was working with the NAACP to fight for black rights. The supremacist thought what he was doing was wrong so they waited for Medgar to get to his house, and shot him right when he got there. Also, in the first court trial the all white jury kind of obeyed the law of their beliefs (that all blacks are always guilty) and didn't find the murderers guilty, even though there was fingerprints of the murderers on the shotgun. This is how the quote of Oscar Romero relates to Medgar Evers.
"We knows that every effort to improve society, above all when society is so full of injustice and sin, in effort that God blesses; that God wants; that God demands of us."
ReplyDeleteThis quote relates to the Freedom schools in Mississippi because it is talking about improving society and that is what the freedom schools were founded for. During this time society was filled with injustice and sin and by establishing these schools they hoped to prepare black children in a way regular schools could not. They did because not only did they teach a better funded school curriculum like biology and math. They also taught classes on case studies, politics, and social forces. In this quote it states that any effort made to improve society is blessed, and God showed that blessing in numbers. They expected to have some schools in a certain district, but it expanded to 41 schools in 20 communities with 2,165 students. Although Oscar Romero was not part of the civil rights movement many of his quotes could apply to moments in the movement such as this one.
"We know that every effort to improve society, above all when society is so full of injustice and sin, is an effort that God blesses; that God demands of us."
ReplyDeleteThis quote by Romero relates a lot to the Mississippi Summer Project, the project was an attempt to improve society and give people their rights all in the name of God, "...that God demands of us." The Mississippi Summer Project was in the summer of 1964 and was a project to register as many blacks to vote as possible. They also set up houses and community centers to help blacks out, it was just like the Freedman's Bureau. They were just trying to change society. They were trying to get the right that they were gaurenteed. Society at this time did not want blacks to be eqaul to whites. They did not think that they deserved what whites got. Society was full of hatred and injustice. They were just trying as hard as they could to change society and make it better.
" We know that every effort to improve society, above all when society is so full of injustice and sin, is an effort that God blesses; that God wants; that god demands of us"
ReplyDeleteThis quote relates the the Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education because The court ruled that school segregation was illegal. The schools stopped segregation de jure but segregation de facto was still a problem. This quote talkes about how we need to stop all the sins of society. I we are to do this we need to stop all setgregation, not just de jure. This is a very difficult task and even today we are still struggling with de facto segregation.
Jake Freise
" We know that every effort to improve society, above all when society is so full of injustice and sin, is an effort that God blesses; that God wants; that god demands of us"
ReplyDeleteThis relates to James Meredith and the University of Mississippi,because people were trying to stop James Meredith from going to the U of Mississippi. The people of Mississippi did not want James to go to "Their" university,so they tried to stop him politically, leagally, and physically. He wanted to make things equal for all races so he persevered in his attempt to break the color barrier. His words, esecially the words "when society is so full of injustice", try to make us realize that everybody deserves an equal chance. Meredith believed in equality and justice for all people so he continued to work for other people's rights. He wanted to make a difference and an effort to succeed in making all people equal under God and under the Government. He wanted to stop injustice and sin in the society that he lived in, so he was was willing to put up with anything that people sent his way.
~Charles Harrington
"We knows that every effort to improve society, above all when society is so full of injustice and sin, in effort that God blesses; that God wants; that God demands of us."
ReplyDeleteThis quote is saying that God blesses every step towards freedom. And it highlights that education is very important to intgretion. He is saying God wants to end segregation, he is saying that God demands that we end segregation. God blesses those that try to end it, to encourage them but God also blesses those who are in favor of it because they are mistaken and need guidance.
"We knows that every effort to improve society, above all when society is so full of injustice and sin, in effort that God blesses; that God wants; that God demands of us."
ReplyDeleteThis quote says that everyone should be free and equal. He is saying that men shouldn't be seperated because they are all equal. God demands from us to work towards that cause. He is also saying that we should help to rid society of sin and injustice. I would conciter segregation to be an injustice.