But a passion for what?
EVANSVILLE — He was fiery, and he was funny, but when the Rev. Dr. Joseph E. Lowery got serious, he urged an Evansville audience Thursday night to be prepared to fight.
Speaking to the Evansville-Vanderburgh County Human Relations Commission Annual Dinner and Mayor's Celebration of Diversity Awards, Lowery said the passion with which activists fought during the civil rights struggles of the 1960s is needed now.
Lowery cited Indiana's Voter ID law as "a prime example" of a "new civil rights battle" because Republicans are using it as a tool "to suppress voting rights" so they "can stay in power." Really? Having to show you're who you say you are when you vote? That's what you're equating with the civil rights struggle to give all people their basic rights and dignity?
Passion tends to bubble up when a tipping-point number of people get energized about a great cause. You can't lecture the masses into it.
Say, I bet if we tried, we could get people fired up with a passion about the crushing of our dreams by an intrusive, massive and profligate government. And we could call the movement . . .
. . .n, wouldn't work.
