I don't know if we really finished the tasks for any of these issues. There are still smoldering embers that need to be put out buried and blessed in mourning that so many many human lives were caught in the clogged wheels of humankinds inhumanity to humankind. But there were voices and words and action taken throughout our past. The best we can do at this point is took work together for the benefit of all- each and everyone of us. If that is not achieved we all and I mean all are in big trouble. It would be a tragedy for the best of our country and those who in whatever way tried to sustain the ideal of America were lost to us and to history.
I have tried really hard to use Lincoln's words in the last paragraph of his second Ignagural address- "with malice toward none and charity for all."
He was along with so many others like Sojourner Truth, Mother Seton, Thomas Merton, and I could go on naming a diverse and brilliant group of souls that tried to carry on despite everything.