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  • One day in Alabama, in 1968, as farmers worked in their fields, a small airplane swooped into view. The farmers looked up wonderingly as papers fluttered out of the plane, into the sky and came swirling down to earth all around them. The papers were flyers about the upcoming elections—flyers with...
    Story | July 9, 2013 | For Children, Grades 2-3 | From Signs of Our Faith
    Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 5th Principle (Conscience & Democracy), 6th Principle (World Community), America, Anti-Oppression, Black History / Whitney Young / James Reeb, Conscience, Democracy, History, Identity, Justice, Politics, Power, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Race/Ethnicity, Unitarian Universalism
  • This is the story of Theodore Parker, a Unitarian minister who was determined to do whatever he could to end slavery in the United States. His powerful sermons were legendary. This is also the story of Millard Fillmore, whose actions earned him the contempt of Theodore Parker and abolitionists...
    Story | By Polly Peterson | December 9, 2011 | For Adults | From The New UU
    Tagged as: 6th Principle (World Community), Acceptance, America, Anti-Oppression, Challenge, Change, Choice, Compromise, Conflict, Conscience, Courage, Unitarianism