Spiritual Audacity

In a telegram to President John F. Kennedy, Abraham Heshel writes:

"I look forward to the privilege of being present at meeting tomorrow at 4 PM. Likelihood exists that the negro problem will be like the weather. Everybody talks about it but nobody does anything about it. Please demand of religious leaders personal involvement not just solemn declaration. We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negros. Church synagogues have failed. They must repent. Ask of religious to call for national repentance and personal sacrifice. Let religious leaders donate one month's salary toward fund for negro housing and education. I propose that you Mr. President declare a state of moral emergency. A marshal plan for aid to negros is becoming a necessity. The hour calls for high moral grandeur and spiritual audacity."

Do religious leaders still write such letters to the president? I would like to repeat these words from 1963 for today: THE HOUR CALLS FOR HIGH MORAL GRANDEUR AND SPIRITUAL AUDACITY.