In the United States, there has been a renewed call for an end to systemic racism and in Nigeria, youths are leading the #EndSARSNow protest to end police brutality and unchecked power. At times of civil unrest, what is the citizen’s duty?
On Episode 25, I draw lessons from Dr Martin Luther King’s epic speech titled “A Call to Conscience” where he called for an end to the Vietnam War. Perspectives on civic duty have never been as skewed as they are in recent times. I talk about what Civic Duty is and how we contribute to the governance of our nations and protect their democratic freedoms.
Key Highlights:
There are many ways to engage: in word and in deeds, with many or with few, with complaints or with solutions… that is how we build a more perfect union. There are no bystanders in nation building. Let your conscience leave you no choice today as it was with MLK and the others that bought the freedoms we enjoy today.
“To me, the relationship of this ministry to the making of peace is so obvious that I sometimes marvel at those who ask me why I am speaking against the war. Could it be that they do not know that the Good News was meant for all men—for communist and capitalist, for their children and ours, for black and for white, for revolutionary and conservative? Have they forgotten that my ministry is in obedience to the one who loved his enemies so fully that he died for them?” -Dr Martin Luther King Jr in A Call to Conscience: Beyond Vietnam.
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