Sunday, August 25, 2013

(1) Dream + 50 | Jericho Road, an infrastructure parable


"...the whole of Jericho Road must be transformed..."


The infrastructure required to support this growth and employment will need a different scope and scale than what’s been supported previously in Rochester.  
- Infrastructure Master Plan Rochester, Minnesota, April 2, 2013

On the one hand, we are called to play the Good Samaritan on life's roadside, but that will be only an initial act. One day we must come to see that the whole Jericho Road must be transformed so that men and women will not be constantly beaten and robbed as they make their journey on life's highway. True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.
 - Martin Luther King, Jr., April 4, 1967 
 
 
 

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