Later they told me this was a kind of joke. But for me, even as a child, it was no laughing matter. Grace Lee Boggs learned Micah's lesson early. Justice is not something that just happens. It is something that faithful people need to be committed to.
Justice comes only when faithful people demand it and work for it.
The United States, he insisted, couldn't be the world's police. The most recent terrorism and genocide of people who lost their lives simply because they were on the wrong side of some issue shouldn't be of any interest to us. That's the concern only of the countries that surround there. That may or may not be good public policy. It may or may not be in the best interest of the United States.