Out of fear, we project our inner darkness onto others. We make demons out of them and then cast them away. Out of fear, we turn away from our own sacred center. And this has never worked, not once, and it never will. And the reason is this. All human beings are bearers of the divine. And when we try to drive a particular group of people away, we drive God away with them. We sever ourselves from the God who has assured us a hundred times that he/she hears the cries of the oppressed and goes where they go.
