Part 287. James Lawson

The death has been reported of James Lawson, one of the architects of the American civil rights movement. His stance on social justice is illustrated by the following quotation:

The politics of Jesus and the politics of God are that people should be fed, that people should have access to life, that people should be treated equally and justly. Especially the marginalised.  The poor, the illiterate, the jailed, the hungry, the naked - those are all terms Jesus uses.  The alien, the stranger, the foreigner,  you're supposed to treat them as you do yourself.