Michael Airgood felt compelled Wednesday to join dozens of fellow Christians who prayed for peace and called for humane treatment of immigrants during a vigil in Downtown Pittsburgh.
“I’m here because I think what our government is doing to immigrants and people of color is unconscionable,” said Airgood, a minister at Community of Reconciliation Church in Pittsburgh’s Oakland neighborhood. “For my own conscience, I need to stand here.”
He brought a sign adorned with a rose and the phrase “There is a higher justice.” It’s a quote from Sophie Scholl, a member of the White Rose Resistance that advocated non-violent resistance in Nazi Germany…