The Time is Always Right to do the Right Thing

THE TIME IS ALWAYS RIGHT TO DO THE RIGHT THING
by Ptr. Stanley C. Flores

Today, as we make this risky and bold stand, one of the questions would be: Is this the right time to do it?

The Rev. Martin Luther King said 45 years ago that, “The time is always right to do the right thing.”

The same man dreamed that “one day his four little children will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”

He expressed this dream in his famous “I have a dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. as thousands of black Americans were racially discriminated at that time.

45 years hence this dream has not only become a reality but to the point that America is poised to have its first African-American president. Indeed nothing is impossible.

But we must ask, “How did it happen?”

And the only standard answer we can find is that someone was willing to lay down his life for his fellow men. That someone was not afraid with the popular opinions, the biased politicians, the threats and the persecution.

He made a stand when others were reluctant and afraid – and I believe none of us in this sacred room is afraid to do so.

I believe none of us here will accept the present evils plaguing the nation for “He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.

He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.”

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

And one of our favorite lines says that, “the only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.” (Edmund Burke)

We must not be silent neither passive. We must act now. We must work for change.

It is with this underlying statement that we call on our colleagues and people to help us convince our good Bishop Bro. Eddie Villanueva to once again consider and accept the challenge to lead us to the promise land by running as President in the next 2010 Presidential Election.

We have no second option.

This is none negotiable.

It is Bro. Eddie or nothing.

We don’t need to lose by default because we have some fears in us or because we are afraid for him.

For if Bro. Eddie will not run we will even be hurt all the more because of our inaction when we see that there is no change after 2010 whoever becomes the next President.

If America has a MLK, India has a Gandhi, the Philippines surely has Bro. Eddie.

We cannot put our trust to traditional politicians anymore because they have been in power for so many years and yet they have not done anything to eradicate poverty, joblessness, homelessness, corruption, injustice and immorality.

We need to put our trust on moral leaders whose life had not been tainted with any form of immorality and injustice.

So we say, in unity and with our undying love for this country that we call on BRO. EDDIE VILLANUEVA for President in the upcoming 2010 Presidential Elections.

We believe in him. We believe his principles. We believe in his leadership. And we believe that he has the capacity to run the nation to achieve change and transformation.

Join the call for a BRO. EDDIE VILLANUEVA Presidency in 2010!

Martin Luther King also said this, “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”