This homily was preached at the funeral of the Reverend George McMaster, Pat’s Brother-In-Law, at Druid Hills Church in Atlanta, Ga.

Pat gave me a set of his lecture notes for the introductory class when I began my teaching career in 1990. The paragraph was from his initial lecture for OT01; I have quoted it in my own initial lecture for the introductory HB class for thirty years.

-Carolyn Pressler

White clergymen went to Selma and Montgomery as ministers answering a call for help, as Christians expressing their convictions, and as Americans taking responsible political action. They went on my behalf, I can thankfully say. And regardless of how their consciences may bother them, mine bothers me - not because I was there, but because I was not.