O Lord, you have taught us that without love whatever we do is worth nothing: Send your Holy Spirit and pour into our hearts your greatest gift, which is love, the true bond of peace and of all virtue, without which whoever lives is accounted dead before you. Grant this for the sake of your only Son Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
— Book of Common Prayer
(Photo: Born on this day in 1868 in West Barrington, Massachusetts., W.E.B. Du Bois, co-founder of the NAACP, was an uncompromising advocate of racial equality, Pan Africanism, and the liberation of Europe’s African colonies. He wrote in 1935, “The slave went free; stood a brief moment in the sun; then moved back again toward slavery.”)