<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=526976" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Colour Bar</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I<br>In twilight twentieth century <br>men I solemnly religiously revere <br>not one of sapiently reverend <br>top three is externally white I fear. <br>II<br>Mohatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandi.<br>Nelson Rolihlaha Mandela.<br>Martin Luther King. Their praise I sing.<br>III<br>Gandi lawyer statesman Indian nationalist leader <br>advocating ahimsa non-violent non-cooperation<br>Satyagraha truth and firmness a policy of passive <br>resistance to British rule advocated by Gandhi<br>defence of and by truth imprisoned many times <br>by South African and later British India authorities <br>assassinated by a Hindu nationalist in January 1948<br>never posthumously awarded the Nobel Peace Prize? <br>IV<br>Mandela lawyer black South African nationalist leader <br>imprisoned again from 1964 to 1990 for life on charges <br>of sabotage and plotting to overthrow white government<br>'The Black Pimpernel' during clashes with authorities <br>avered because of his ability to avoid South African police<br>using several disguises a favourite an invisible chauffeur<br>Mandela anti-apartheid struggle symbol of unity for <br>worldwide anti-apartheid racial equality movement <br>Mandela served 27 years in prison 46664 AIDS activist <br>against AIDS epidemic awarded Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.<br>V<br>King US Baptist minister black American civil rights leader <br>Montgomery, Alabama nonviolent bus boycott of 1955<br>during 382 days of boycott King was arrested his home <br>was bombed he was subjected to personal racist abuse<br>250,000 march organizer on Washington DC in 1963 <br>to demand famous “I Have A Dream” speech racial equality <br>assaulted arrested twenty times awarded Nobel Peace Prize<br>in 1964 the year Nelson Mandela was sentenced to jail for life <br>assassinated on motel balcony Memphis Tennessee April 1968. <br>VI<br>Will next martyr be an Arab <br>a stylized western prejudged ambassador? <br>No an old loyal lion of Israel<br>who died attempting a Palestinian Israeli <br>intervening tightrope gap act <br>assassinated by an Israeli nationalist in 1995. <br>VII<br>Mahatma (‘Great Soul’) <br>a graphic symbol <br>used in ritual meditation <br>enclosing a circle a square <br>with God on each of four sides <br>to represent the universe.<br>VIII<br>Mandala <br>a circular symbolic figure <br>as a Hindu and Buddhist religious symbol<br>representing entire universe in various religions<br>or a symbol in a dream <br>representing the dreamer’s search <br>for completeness and self-unity.<br>IX<br>Lutheran <br>justification by faith alone <br>as a cardinal doctrine <br>or characterized by search <br>theology of Martin Luther.<br>X<br>Martyr <br>specific destination of faith honour<br>connoting highest degree of saint-ship<br>one who voluntarily undergoes death penalty<br>refusing to renounce Christian faith<br>refusing to renounce any article of faith<br>perseverance in any Christian virtue<br>perseverance exhibited in obedience<br>to any law command of holy church.<br>XI<br>King-ism <br>any twenty-first century apostle <br>of Prophet Martin Luther King<br>advocating equality for all humanity<br>as chosen spokes comprising <br>ever rotating great wheel turning eternally <br>in cosmic circle of life or characterized<br>by theology of Dr. Martin Luther King.<br>XII<br>cosmic wheel <br>turning turning turning<br>souls earth incarnated <br>learning learning learning.<br>XIII<br>The famous scientist <br>Albert Einstein said<br>paying tribute to <br>Mahatma Gandhi <br>upon his death <br>'Generations to come will scarce believe <br> that such a man as this <br> walked the earth in flesh and blood'.<br>Funny peculiar not funny haha how<br>some professing faith deny men of miracles.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Written 13.3.1996.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Terence+George+Craddock">Terence George Craddock</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=526976" data-title="The Colour Bar de Terence George Craddock" data-description="I In twilight twentieth century men I solemnly religiously revere not one of sapiently reverend top three is externally white I fear. II Mohatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandi. Nelson Rolihlaha Mandela. Martin Luther King. Their praise I sing. III ..."></div> </div> </div>

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