UUC Showed Up for Seattle's MLK Day March

From UUC's Acting for Racial Justice Team:


Long time and new members and friends, family, and staff of UUC showed up to honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at Seattle's MLK Day march. Many wearing decades-old white UUC T-shirts or UUA Side with Love apparel, we marched in support of a message of love, peace, community, and resistance. 

 

Interviewed by KIng5 video (at 01.14) and described in the online transcript: UUC members Catherine Ruha and Margaret Sutro sounded these values. 

 

“'We’ve got to raise up the voice of love and peace and harmony and community, in face of a regime that chooses to make people suffer and murder them and cause harm,' said Catherine Ruha of University Unitarian Church."

 

Others stressed that the meaning of the day lies in continued engagement.

 

“This is not a day off, this is a day on to see all the people that can make something happen in our community over and over again. We need each other. It’s great to be out and see it,” one marcher [Margaret Sutro] said.]

 

Carrying the church's UUA Side with Love banner alongside thousands of other marchers, we felt both a renewed sense of purpose, and determination to keep acting together toward the goal of Dr. King's Beloved Community. As MLK said in the I Have a Dream speech:

 

“We cannot walk alone. As we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back.” 


Posted/updated on:

January 23, 2026