The call of the prophet is to call one’s nation to repentance, to courageously expose the hypocrisies and contradictions between dreams and reality. America has to be awoken from the stupor of false dreams.
The second call of the prophet is to be a poet, to speak of the dream with such imagination that hope is animated, that vision is sharpened to see a new way forward, and that feet are strengthened to walk toward it.
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