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 suffer with those who have disappeared, those who have had to flee their homess, and those who have been tortured."
ReplyDeleteThis quote relates to my topic in several ways. The first way is that when the quote metions those who have disappeared, it relates to how 4 young girls disappeared from this Earth, or died. They suffered, and it is like in the quote that other people suffered with them. The second way the quote relates to my event is that everyone is that church was tortured by the bombing. People also outside the church also suffered, such as the family members of the girl killed. So, they suffered with the tortured. A third way it relates to the quote is that in a way, a church is a home for people. So, in this event, when the church was blown up, people fled it. Therefore, they fled their homes, which relates to the quote.
"We suffer with those who have disapeared, those who have had to flee their homes, and those who have been tortured."
ReplyDeleteThis sentence relates to my topic because four young girls were entering a place that they should be able to feel safe, church. However they were killed by the explosion of dynamite as they were walking up the stairs to their baptist church. Robert Chambliss was charged with the murder but later found not guily. This was injustice because innocent people were forced to flee there church. Four innocent little girls were lost. Now people that normally attended the 16th street baptist church feared going. It was injustice that no one was arrested for this crime. However Chamblis was retried in 1985. Justice was served and he was found guilty and sentenced to life inmprisonment.
The fourth quote relates to our topic of the Montgomery Bus Boycott in many ways. Segregated people thought that it was not right to have a law that made black people sit with white people. Rosa Parks and many other people decided to stand up to this immoral law. Oscar Romero says that you don't even have to obey a law that makes you kill people. These people probably decided that going against segregation is not too difficult a task to do. As it says in the last line of the quote I picked, you have to obey your conscience over an immoral law. This is why this quote most relates to our topic.
ReplyDelete"We know that every effort to improve society,above all when society in so full of injustice and sin, is an effort that God blesses;that God wants;that God demands of us." This quote relates to our topic because it is about all humans having equality and improving society. While the volunteers were trying to get African Americans they were also working to create a world in which all human being are equal. In the quote where in states "That God demands of us," it speaks of a society where all races are excepted and this is what the people who worked for Freedom Summer were trying to achieve. These volunteers were not working just to allow blacks their civil right to vote but they working to unite our nation so that we can become an image of what God wanted us to become. The quote also relates to our topic because it speaks of injustice and during Freedom Summer there was a lot of injustice, but that was what they were fighting to stop. They wanted the injustice to stop and allow for blacks and whites to live together peacefully under the Constitution of the United States of America. This is how our topic relates to his quote.
ReplyDeleteThe quote that I chose to use is, "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." This quote relates to the Greensboro Four because it is saying how every effort, no matter how small, is encouraged by God. What was done by the Greensboro Four at first was not such a big thing. But as they went along with it, the magnitude of the situation grew and grew until it had affected thousands of people. This shows that these four men who sat down in that lunch counter were doing God's will, and were therefore granted the ability to see the result of their action. What they saw was that first, hundreds of people followed their example that were from the same place. Then, they saw thousands of people in surrounding states do the same. Finally, they were able to see tens of thousands of people all over the country doing what they did and standing up for their rights.
ReplyDelete"We know that every effort to improve society,above all when society in so full of injustice and sin, is an effort that God blesses;that God wants;that God demands of us."
ReplyDeleteThis quote relates to James Meredith and the University of Mississippi for many reasons. James Meredith knew that to get the best education for him, he needed to apply for the University of Mississippi. This would improve society because with an African American in their university, it would set an example for all of the other schools in the United States to look at and do the same thing. Another choice to improve society was that of the Attorney General, Robert Kennedy. This effort was to ensure that Meredith was safe from all threats and dangers by putting federal marshalls on the campus. He knew there were many threats toward James Meredith for his enrollment and he made sure that he was not to be injured in any way while he was on campus. God would call upon us to do this because he would want everyone to have the same opportunities and to be treated equal. That is why this quote directly relates to James Meredith very well.
Ryan Mahoney
The quote that i think best represents my quote is "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 my topic of the NAACP in one main way. First, the NAACP's job is to promote the welfare of the black community. Without equal rights for black people, we would not truly have a society, just groups of people ruling over one another. This quote talks about how improving society is what God wants which means the NAACP is doing the work of God. Secondly, the NAACP is helping people that deserve an equal chance at life and the NAACP is working to give the black community that chance. This is also the work of God and of Cesar Chavez. That is how my quote relates to my topic of the NAACP.
Charlie Blackington
During the Civil Rights movement, a meeting place for Civil Rights leaders was bombed on Sunday, September 15, 1963. Four teenage girls were killed and twenty-three other people were injured. The quote by Oscar Romero that relates to this Civil Rights event was “We suffer with those who have disappeared, those who have to flee their homes, and those who have been tortured”. It relates to this event because the people who disappeared were the four girls who were killed by the bombing. Also, the people who were tortured were the other twenty-three victims that were injured because of the bombing. People lived through this quote by praying and feeling the pain that the four girls and the other twenty- three people felt. They also learned from this and tried to prevent tragedies like this from happening again. This quote was the closest relating quote to the 16th Street Church Bombing in Birmingham.
ReplyDeleteDrew Foskett
We know that every effort to improve society,above all when society in so full of injustice and sin, is an effort that God blesses;that God wants;that God demands of us."
ReplyDeleteI can see how many aspects of this quote make connections with James Meredith and the University of Mississippi. Knowing that this country is supposed to be "liberty and justice for all", James Meredith knew that he had his rights as an American Citizen and as a person to recieve a good education from the University of Mississippi. I can also see that by making a school so large like this and always known as an all white school, to break the color barrier here and end the segregattion, and be giving equal opportunity to all people would improve society. I can also connect the words of this quote when it says, "every effort to imrove society... is an effort that God blesses; God wants; and God demands of us'. can be shown since James Meredith put forth such a great effort to get into this all white school, and to break the color barrier at schools like this so that colored people in the future can get the same opportunities that James Meredith was able to get, and God must have seen this and supported it so that James was able to pull through and end the "injustice and sin" occuring at the time. That is how this quote relates to Jams Meredith and the University of Mississippi.
Mark Malone
"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." The Montgomery Bus Boycott was an effort to improve society. The people, mainly black people, recognized an injustice in society and in how they were treated when using the public buses. Together, they made a boycott against using the buses to try and get rid of this injustice. I can relate Oscar Romero's quote to this boycott because he was for civil rights throughout the world, mainly in El Salvador. He approved of having people band together to fight against the oppression and the injustices that other people have given them. The people of Montgomery pulled together, boycotted the buses of Montgomery, and forced the bus companies to change how they treated African-Americans. Drivers even called African-Americans hurtful names that showed how people viewed them in society. The only difference is the color of their skin, yet they were forced to move for white people and sit in the back of the bus. They were treated like they were less. Romero knew that everybody is equal, even though for unknown reasons people aren't treated as such.
ReplyDeleteWe know that every effort to improve society,above all when society in so full of injustice and sin, is an effort that God blesses;that God wants;that God demands of us." This quote relates to our topic because it is saying that everyone should have equal rights but not everybody does because society is so full of injustice. But this quote is also saying that every effort we do to make it closer to having equal rights for everyone is an effort that was givin from God. Every effort would be a gift from God because God wants everyone to have equal rights and be treated fairly and that is not how things happen. So when people make effotrs to work closer to that it is a Gift from God.
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“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 can easily relate to my topic of the NAACP. During the mid 1900’s, Civil Rights was a major issue in the United States. The NAACP was formed during this time and grew rapidly in responding to injustices that were occurring towards blacks. As Father Romero said, “Society is so full of injustice and sin”. The NAACP worked their absolute hardest to put an end to the racist society that was once America. Father Oscar Romero said that anyone who works to stop the injustice, like the NAACP, is doing what God calls us to do. The NAACP worked towards school integration through the Brown v. Board of Education case, put an end to the Grandfather clause, led many Civil Rights Acts, and much more. They did all this knowing that there were many people out there who would even kill them. Yet, they carried on and strived towards creating a better and more peaceful society like Oscar Romero no matter what would happen to them. Father Romero says how this is what God would want them to do.
Alex Sideropoulos
Brendan Prendeville 3 project questions
ReplyDeleteQ) Based on our display, what are some personal reasons someone would choose to join the Black panthers? What are some benefits?
Q.) What was the political ideology of the early Black panthers?
Q.) What methods and policies did the Black Panthers use to make a positive impact on blacks?
"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." This is a quote by Oscar Romero that I believe relates to the topic of freedom rides during the time when busing was taking place in the United States. This quote is related to freedom rides because the majority of the southern population in the United States was for segregation and wanted it to be the continuing standards amongst everyone. However, freedom riders were people; both black and white, who made an effort to improve this growing problem. Although these riders saw that blacks and whites could not be together in this horrible epidemic, they took both black and white people and protested against segregation with faith and power that they could some day achieve their goal of completely ending segregation. Although the push that was allowing them to do this may not actually have been God, it can be figuratively seen in this way that something was driving them to risk their lives to stop a problem. In this quote, the "effort" was the freedom riders protesting at different southern bus terminals at risk of being against the majority and being discriminated. Also, the "injustice in the society" is the idea that the people of this time thought that segregation was just and that it was an idea that could help them succeed. Because these freedom riders worked to solve this large ongoing puzzle, more people joined them because they wanted to contribute and solve the problem. This is a way that God agrees with what they were doing and this was what he wanted and by having people join, it shows that they know what is just and what should be done.
ReplyDelete"We know that every effort to improve society,above all when society in so full of injustice and sin, is an effort that God blesses;that God wants;that God demands of us." This relates to the Freedom Summer because God wants us to work towards making a world that we are all equal in the eyes of society and the law. The Freedom Summer brings us was one step closer to that equality. This equality was completed by having other people from different states to help register black voters, they were working towards the goal of equality in our country that God would want. The Freedom Summer was a blessing because it was a chance for the black people to be heard; that they had a voice a voice that needed to be heard. In the south especially in Mississippi there was such injustices and by registering the right to vote, it was a small step to that equality. This also relates to the Freedom Summer because God wants us all to live in a society where we can all live tougher. By the blacks being discriminated against they were not equal in the eyes of society. God wanted, and also demanded that we treat each other equally, and love one and other like we love oneself.
ReplyDeleteBy Sean Manning
"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 demands of us." This relates to my topic of the NAACP for one main reason. The NAACP was formed to fight for the black community to get them equal rights and opportunities. This quote talks about society, and if not everyone has the same opportunities, then there would be no society. A group of people would just rule over everyone else, and that is not what God wants. The NAACP was doing exactly this. They put forth every effort to improve society and make sure that this did not happen. According to Oscar Romero, the NAACP is doing what God calls us to do. The NAACP worked towards a lot of things, like school integration, led Civil Rights Acts, and put an end to the Grandfather clause. Even though some people were willing to kill them, they did this to make a better society. They did what God called them to do.
ReplyDeleteJack Kennedy
"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."
ReplyDeleteThere are many ways that this quote, spoken by Oscar Romero, relates to my topic of Freedom Riders. One such way that this quote relates to Freedom Riders is the way that Freedoms Riders efforts were made in order to bring an improvement to daily society in an attempt to make everyone equal (effort to improve society). This shows that people may not have participated in Freedom Rides for their own freedoms but, participated in an effort to all around improve society. Another way that this quote relates to the topic of Freedom Riders is that God urges people to fight against such injustices, as said by Oscar Romero. This may have motivated people to peacefully protest against the injustices like by Freedom Rides to protest injustices like segregation on different forms of transportation. Oscar Romero calls people to help free society from sin and injustice and the Freedom Riders lived out the message of this quote through their actions. Freedom Riders fought for their own Freedom against the injustices in society through segregated transportation. These are some of the ways that people who participated as Freedom Riders lived out the words of Oscar Romero.
Joe Souza
Jon Beniers writes:
ReplyDeleteThe quote "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, and God demands of us" as stated by Oscar Romero. This quote is relevant to the freedom riders as it shows that during the time of the continued segregation in the US that people wanted to act to improve the overall society and to prevail over the injustice the black people were suffering from. The quote speaks to God's blessings of wanting equality and justice for all of his followers. The people of the time during the freedom riders believed that segregation was a "just" act, the people of the south vehemently believed as they positioned themselves to attack the freedom riders as they traveled. The freedom riders wanted to depict the unjust acts of these people who were fixed on keeping blacks and whites segregated. The freedom riders believed that by traveling together they could improve and change the perception of white superiority to blacks and help to end the strong hold segregation of the south. The freedom riders are in a lot of ways similar to Oscar Romero since both believed and followed God's teaching and that all people of God were equal and they fought through pain, suffering and self sacrifice to work toward what they felt God believed, equality of all.
"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 us." This relates to my subject , Greensboro Sit ins, because 4 ordinary students attempted to alter an unjust society. Although Greensboro, a growing city, had prided it self in its race relationship had only taken small steps towards racial equality. The school system had interrgrated their school but the lunch counters were strictly reserved for the whites. So four students took charge. On February 1,1960 four students from North Carolina A&T Collage sat down at the Woolworth Store. They sat down at the lunch counters and demanded service. They ramained until the store closed. The press soon began to peg them as the Greensboro four. The very next day they did the same thing but were accompained by 23 other students and demanded food service and would not budge from their seats. As hectic as it could have possible gotten they stressed non violence act. The KKK soon arose to counteract the black community. When the black community peacfully moved into a restricted area of the Kress Market they were apprehended. because of sear drive the Greensoro four finally achieved justice. because of a decline in sales the Greensboro stores de-segragated their lunch counters. the people involved in this amazing thing were driven to change society even though they were threatened by the dangerous KKK. They were blessed by God to have the perseverance and determination to win in battle of justice and injustices.
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Mike Evers
ReplyDelete"We know that effort 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."
This is the quote that I think best connects with the Montgomery Bus Boycott. This connects to our topic because the Montgomery Bus Boycott was an effort to improve society, mainly the life of the Black people in Montgomery, that weren't allowed to ride the buses if there wasn't enough seats for white people to ride the bus. The Black people realized the injustices and sins that were occurring against them, and they decided to fight back. This is something that has been going on for a long time and knew that God did not want this injustice to go on any longer. The black people decided that they should organize a boycott to destroy the bus system, so the bus owners would have to allow the black people to ride the bus, just like the white people. I can relate this to Oscar Romero because he fought for equal rights for everyone, and that is what the people in Montgomery were trying to accomplish. Oscar Romero was fighting to allow people to believe in whatever religion they want, and not be persecuted by their government. Oscar Romero was mainly focusing on El Salvador in his work. He worked for freedom, just as the organizers of Montgomery Bus Boycott did. I believe that the Montgomery Bus Boycott was something more than being able to ride the bus; it was about being equal with the white people. This is why I believe that the first quote most closely relates to the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
"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." This Quote relates to james meredith and the university of mississippi because he wanted a black person to be into the university so it could set an example and that james mereidth could change something. He just wanted the best education he could and he changed things with it.
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Conor Harrington
ReplyDelete"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." This quote relates tomy topic because the Greensboro Four tried to improve their society, which was full of racism and injustice. They decided that equality was worth more than themselves because they stayed even though there were racial slurs thrown at them and other threats of being lycnhed. They fought despite being outnumbered by whites. But, the next day, they continued their protest, but this time there were other students with them. This didn't just stay in Greensboro. This spread to other parts of the United States, including Boston. Because of these four brave college students, the SNCC was created, and ended up playing a large part in the civil rights movement.