We Who Believe in Freedom Cannot Rest

“We Who Believe in Freedom Cannot Rest until it Comes.”

The title of LMNOPI’s new mural for Rutland, Vermont is a quote from a song composed by Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon* using the words spoken by the civil rights leader and SNCC mentor Ella Josephine Baker.

“Until the killing of black men, black mothers' sons
Is as important as the killing of white men, white mothers' sons.
We who believe in freedom cannot rest
We who believe in freedom cannot rest until it comes”