We are here because the work of justice is always collective.

 

We are here because I do not have all the answers but I do have some. 

And

You do not have all the answers but you do have some.

 

We are here because leaders need to be led.

 

We are here to encourage and spur one another on to works of good trouble.

 

We are here because we cannot move the mountains of economic, criminal, and  education injustice alone but together we can, and must, uproot them and cast them into the sea. 

 

We are here because all that is required for evil to flourish is for good human beings to do nothing.

 

We are here because where two or three are gathered there is power.

 

We are here because Memphis cannot know peace unless it knows justice.

 

We are here because we are prisoners of hope who transform pain into action.

 

We are here to see one another and to be seen.