Thought for the Day

Justice is built through the actions of many people

doing small things to refine and improve society. Justice

is built through the deeds of many people influencing

the attitudes of society. . . When enough of us are showing

that we care about feeding the hungry, the nation will rise

to the challenge of feeding the hungry. . . When enough 

of us refuse to allow people to sleep on the streets, live in

cardboard boxes, be mistreated by public officials or want

for proper medical care, then these injustices will begin

to go away and we will be on the way to building a moral

and just society, a moral and just world. . . .

~ Rabbi Michael Weisser

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Quoted from Kathryn Watterson, Not by the Sword (Bison Books, 2012), pages 154-155

Rabbi Michael Weisser, Rabbi and Spiritual Leader, Free Synagogue of Flushing (2008 to Present), New York; Winner, Pax Christi National Peacemaker Award, 2012 (Weisser is known for befriending and converting to Judaism a Ku Klux Klan leader in Lincoln, Nebraska. The story of how that happened is told in Not by the Sword.)