First Unitarian Universalist Church of Winnipeg

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Worship & Ministry Rev. Millie Rochester

Civil Rights and Social Justice

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Unitarian Universalists have historically been closely involved with civil rights and social justice movements. John Haynes Holmes, a UU minister, was among the founders of both the NAACP and the ACLU, chairing the latter for a time. Approximately 20% of Unitarian Universalist ministers marched with Martin Luther King, Jr., from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery. UU ministers have been performing same-sex unions since at least the late 1960s.

In 1995 the UUA helped establish the International Council of Unitarians and Universalists (ICUU).

 

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Thomas Jefferson, Unitarian in good company

Unitarianism turned up in England, where it influenced John Locke and Isaac Newton, and then in British North America, where it touched Thomas Jefferson through his friendship with the Reverend Joseph Priestly, the discoverer of Oxygen.


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“When the poet invokes in his splendid frenzy the shining spheres of heaven, the murmuring fountains, and the rushing streams; when he calls upon the earth to hearken and bids the wild sea listen to his song; when he communes with the sweet secluded valleys and the haughty-headed hills, as if those inanimate objects were alive, as if those masses of brute matter were endowed with sense and thought—we do not smile, we do not sneer, we do not reason, but we feel. A secret chord is touched within us; a slumbering sympathy is awakened into life.”

~ Winwood Reade (born December 26, 1838)

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