Gandhi’s Legacy:
Houston
Perspectives

In Chicago, Swami Vivekananda said “Sectarianism, bigotry, and its horrible descendant, fanaticism, have long possessed this beautiful earth. . . . But I fervently hope [for] the death-knell of all fanaticism, of all persecutions with the sword or with the pen, and of all uncharitable feelings between persons wending their way to the same goal.”
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Rabéa Ballin, #ORGANIZE, 2014, mixed media installation.

No time to analyze
Join us
Action weighs heavier
Than dull, timid poetry of talkers.
We have work to do
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3rd Ward’s
History
Will be lost
In the closed casket
A whisper’s sleep
Who will remember
Us?
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Kenya Evans and Robert Pruitt, The Golden Rule Does Not Apply Here, 2014, mixed media installation.

We don’t serve Niggers
Sit… look straight
Ahead… eyes on the prize.
Back erect… head tilted… you are
African Kings and Queens… wearing
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Jamal Cyrus, Deacons for Defense Colinear Coplanar Phylactery, 2014, paper, rubber bands, plaster, thin-set mortar.

Upon this
Book
Miracles
Happen
Wisdom is
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Jade Cooper, Who’s Winning?, 2014, mixed media.

Race Game
32 dark.
32 white
America stole the board once owned by native Indians.
Dark this side
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I am a Khudai Khidmatgar [Servant of God], and as God needs no service I shall serve Him by serving his creatures selfishly.
I promise not to use violence and to refrain from retaliation or taking revenge, and I shall forgive anyone who indulges in oppression and excesses against me.
I promise to live a simple life, to practice virtue, and refrain from evil.
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January 25, 1967
To: The Nobel Institute
Gentleman:
As the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate of 1964, I now have the pleasure of proposing to you the name of Thich Nhant Hanh for that award in 1967.
I do not personally know of anyone more worth of the Nobel Peace Prize than this gentle Buddhist monk from Vietnam. . . .

Robert Hodge, Forgive Them Father for They Know Not What They Do, 2014, mixed media on reclaimed paper and hemp thread.

The root of all evil…
Segregation.
Money is the drunk
Cousin of profit,
So this is compassionate capitalism.
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Deon Robinson, Against Fear, 2014, paper, charcoal, mixed-media collage.

It will not
Be
Televised
Except for Bonanza
or The Brady Bunch
The world will see
Though…
Change is coming
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Regina Agu, Support, 2014, mixed media collage.

Arms as iron trees
Arms sweaty
Protrude from hot concrete poetry
And the cities built
On Slave bones
Tremble on disfigured knees
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Anthony Suber, Freedom Ain’t Free for the “Freed”, 2014, wood, cast stone, resin.

Look at your hands
Our hands tell a story.
Cotton hands…
Plowing hands… praying hands
Baptizing hands
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M’Kina Tapscott, Grains of Salt, 2014, mixed media installation.

In the sea’s bosom
Salt
is drawn
and from the rock
13 stood
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Phillip Pyle the Second, Blood on the Leaves, 2014, polyurethane on found wood.

Spring will not
Yield green
It will be Red
This season.
A body shaped
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Judge Orders Crews to Halt Removal of Freedmen’s Town Bricks After months of debate, the City of Houston has temporarily stopped a restoration project in the historic Freedmen’s Town neighborhood in the Fourth Ward. It’s only for 14 days, however–take action to preserve this important part of Houston’s heritage.   Read about it or hear… Read More