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Black churches served as hush harbors where slaves could worship in safety. Praise houses where their free descendents could gather and shout hallelujah. Rest stops for the weary along the underground railroad. Bunkers for the foot soldiers of the civil rights movement. They have been and continue to be Community Centers where we organize for jobs and justice, places of scholarship and network, places where children are loved and fed and kept out of harms way. And told that they are beautiful and smart. And taught that they matter. Thats what happens in church. Thats what the black church means. Our beating heart, the place where our dignity as a people is embodied. And theres no better example of this tradition than mother emanuel, a church built by blacks seeking liberty, burned to the ground because its founder fought to end slavery only to rise up again, a phoenix from these ashes. [ applause ] when there were laws banning all church gatherers, services happened here anyway in defi

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