“We must re-engage ourselves in the idea that all citizens have the right to have their voice heard and to have their vote counted in the electoral process.” This message was sent on social media by the Archbishop of America, Elpidoforos, as a small tribute to the memory of the top black American leader, Martin Luther King, on the occasion of the day that bears his name and which has been a national holiday since 1986. of the United States of America.
“It’s our duty,” the Archbishop notes, “to experience our faith in action and not just in words, honoring the legacy of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., the preacher of racial equality, justice, peace and non-violence.” whose civil rights struggles in 1965 led to the passage of a law by the US Congress that, a hundred years after the Civil War, guaranteed unrestricted suffrage for all Americans regardless of color.
As he states, “as a nation of law we are committed to the equality of all citizens regardless of race, religious” belief “, economic status or ethnic origin and as people of faith we have a duty and responsibility to give a voice to them which are often not heard in areas of power “. In fact, the Archbishop of America points out that “the right to vote, the right of every citizen of this country to be heard, is what makes America so great among all the nations of the world.”
“The murdered 39-year-old Dr. King, whose memory is celebrated on the third Monday of each year, and who, among other things, had said the monumental phrase ” eye for an eye will make us all blind ”, fought hard and hard, for “to have equal justice for all and for all”, adds the Archbishop.
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