AND NO ONE ASKED
Reader: In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth…
And God saw the light that it was good and God
Divided the light from the darkness, and God
Called the light day and darkness he called…
night.
And there was evening and there was morning,
the first day.
All: And God said…
Reader: So God created man in His own image,
All: In the image of God created He him.
Girl 1: Was he white, yellow, or black?
Boy 12: Was he Catholic, Protestant, or Jew?
Reader: It doesn’t say—only that he created man.
All: Man was created man
Different from fish or four-footed animal,
Different in color
But still man,
Wanting the same things---
Girl 3: Food to eat,
Boy 4: A place to sleep,
Girl 5: Land to work, to live on, to build---
All: A better world for his young.
Reader: And he got that better world
Because man worked with man.
Boy 6: To build a home,
Girl 7: To make the first wheel,
Boy 8: To bring the first fire.
Boy 10; And it was man working with man
Who built the town and the nation,
Girl 9: The little house and skyscraper.
Girl 1: The wagon and the streamliner,
Boy 12: The arching bridge and the B-29
Reader: And no on asked
Was he black or white,
Was he Catholic, Protestant or Jew
All: No one---but the sick in mind.
Boy 2: We built a nation, powerful and glorious
Because man worked with man.
Girl 3: The
English at
Boy 4: The
Dutch in
Girl 5: The protestants in
All: And we fought the Revolution
So man could live with man
In freedom, in peace.
Reader: And no one asked
At
Was he black or white,
Was he Catholic, Protestant or Jew,
All: No one---but the sick in mind.
Boy 6: When the slaves in the South in their pain and
suffering cried for freedom, they sang,
“When
All: Let my people go.
Boy 6: “Oppressed so hard they could not stand.”
All: Let my people go.
Boy 6: “Go
down
Tell old pharaoh to
All: Let my people go.
Girl 7: The Protestant Negro sang of the yearning
Of the White Jew for Freedom
Because Freedom belongs to all men,
Not to one color, not to one religion.
Boy 8: In the pain and suffering now
Does the wounded Protestant of Iowa
Fighting
in the
“Whose blood are you pouring into my veins
so that I may live?”
Boy 4: Does the colored gunner cutting his way
Through
“Who made the gun who filled this bullet?”
All: No one asks on the fighting front,
Is he black or white,
Is he Catholic or Protestant or Jew.
Reader: No one---but the sick in mind.
Boy 10: I went to a movie last week,
All: He
saw
Boy 10: I wore my new cotton shirt.
All: The cotton was picked by a colored man in the South.
Boy 10: I rode down by train.
All: Every race, every color, every religion was on
that train with him.
Boy 10: And I met my friend. We were hungry and went in
for lunch.
All: The man who served them was a Swede and Protestant.
Boy 10: After the movies I came home, turned on the radio
and listened to my favorite programs.
All: And
heard
a Catholic;
Boy 10: And I thought to myselft what a wonderful world
this was with so many different people helping
me to be healthy and happy and how much I owed them.
All: And he didn’t ask once that day,
On the train, in the movies, in his home,
Is he black or white,
Is he Catholic or Protestant or Jew.
Reader: No one would—no one but the sick in mind.
All: The sick in mind,
The sick in mind,
Who are the sick in mind?
Girl 9: In the old days they threw the Christians to the lions
Girl 7: They slaughtered the Jews in their homes,
Girl 5: They drove the Negroes into slavery.
All: They were the sick in mind.
Reader: They are the same today.
Boy 8: They killed the Polish Catholics in prison camps.
Girl 2: They killed the German Jews on their streets.
Girl 3: They made slaves of Czech Protestants in their
factories.
All: They divide man from man with hate.
Reader: They are the sick in mind.
All: They live in our midst today.
Girl 3: They gang up on a Jewish boy.
Girl 7: They put a swastika on a Catholic church,
Boy 4: They smash up a Protestant pulpit,
Girl 1: They won’t give a Negro a job.
All: They are the sick in mind.
Boy 8: Would you touch a boy who has scarlet fever?
Reader: Will you listen to the one who is sick in mind.
Will you listen to the one who divides black
from white, Protestant from Catholic from Jew?
Boy 10: What are you missing?
All: Man divided from man
Man fighting against man,
Has taken it from you,
Girl 5: What have you?
Boy 2: Man living with man,
Man working with man,
Gave it to you.
All: In all your deeds, in all your thoughts,
In all you say, in all you do…
Remember this----
Reader: “And God created man in His own image, in the
image of God created He him.”
All: And it doesn’t say he was black
It doesn’t say he was white,
It doesn’t say he was Catholic, Protestant or Jew
Reader: It just says, He created man---
All: That’s all of us!