This story appears in the Selma feature series. View the full series.
by GSR Staff
March 8, 2015
Originally published in National Catholic Reporter
Oct. 6, 1965
To critics
of Selma marchers
Though wedged in thickest traffic
a man can sicken with aloneness.
He can yearn for human brotherhood
As he has never wanted bread.
But let his step paced
By a brother’s step
And he grows strong
With a spreading strength – that reaches
to the healing of the heart.
A man can hunger for that sound
As he has never needed bread.
“I was hungry…”
And safely,safely, from a distance –
You made a Holy Hour
You lit a lovely candle.
And then you went your way.
SISTER ANNE MARY, O.P.
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