Troy Davis

Troy Davis

HERR, Du erforschest mich und kennest mich.  
  
Ich sitze oder stehe auf, so weißt du es; du verstehst meine Gedanken von ferne. Ich gehe oder liege, so bist du um mich und siehst alle meine Wege. Denn siehe, es ist kein Wort auf meiner Zunge, das du, HERR, nicht alles wissest.  
Von allen Seiten umgibst du mich und hältst deine Hand über mir.  
Solche Erkenntnis ist mir zu wunderbar und zu hoch; ich kann sie nicht begreifen.

Wo soll ich hin gehen vor deinem Geist, und wo soll ich hin fliehen vor deinem Angesicht?  
Führe ich gen Himmel, so bist du da. Bettete ich mir in die Hölle, siehe, so bist du auch da. 
Nähme ich Flügel der Morgenröte und bliebe am äußersten Meer,   
so würde mich doch deine Hand daselbst führen und deine Rechte mich halten. 
Spräche ich: Finsternis möge mich decken! so muß die Nacht auch Licht um mich sein.  
Denn auch Finsternis ist nicht finster bei dir, und die Nacht leuchtet wie der Tag.


So viele Menschen kämpften weltweit für dich und wir wurden im Kampf eine große Familie, in deren Mitte und Herzen du immer bleiben wirst.

Wir werden deine letzten Worte beherzigen und weiterkämpfen und zusammenstehen und du wirst immer ein Teil von uns sein. Ruhe in Frieden, Bruder.

Troy Davis:

"

Der
Kampf gegen die Todesstrafe ist nicht mit mir verloren oder gewonnen
(...). Wir werden gewinnen, wenn ihr nie aufhört, für  Gerechtigkeit zu
kämpfen."




"Sei getreu bis in den Tod, so will ich dir die Krone des Lebens schenken."

Re: Troy Davis

O LORD, you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up;
   you discern my thoughts from afar.
 You search out my path and my lying down
   and are acquainted with all my ways.
Even before a word is on my tongue,
   behold, O LORD, you know it altogether.
You hem me in, behind and before,
   and lay your hand upon me.
  Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
   it is high; I cannot attain it.

Where shall I go from your Spirit?
   Or where shall I flee from your presence?
  If I ascend to heaven, you are there!
    If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!
If I take the wings of the morning
   and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
even there your hand shall lead me,
   and your right hand shall hold me.
If I say, "Surely the darkness shall cover me,
   and the light about me be night,"
  even the darkness is not dark to you;
   the night is bright as the day,
   for darkness is as light with you.

So many people fought worldwide for you and we became a large family, where you will always stay in our middle and our hearts.

We will follow your last words and keep on fighting and you will alway be a part of us. Rest in peace, brother.

Troy said yesterday:


“The struggle for justice doesn’t end with me. This struggle is for
all the Troy Davises who came before me and all the ones who will come
after me.

I’m in good spirits and I’m prayerful and at peace. But I will not stop fighting until I’ve taken my last breath.

A letter from Troy Davis:

To All:


I want to thank all of you for your efforts and dedication to Human
Rights and Human Kindness, in the past year I have experienced such
emotion, joy, sadness and never ending faith. It is because of all of
you that I am alive today, as I look at my sister Martina I am marveled
by the love she has for me and of course I worry about her and her
health, but as she tells me she is the eldest and she will not back down
from this fight to save my life and prove to the world that I am
innocent of this terrible crime.

As I look at my mail from
across the globe, from places I have never ever dreamed I would know
about and people speaking languages and expressing cultures and
religions I could only hope to one day see first hand. I am humbled by
the emotion that fills my heart with overwhelming, overflowing Joy. I
can’t even explain the insurgence of emotion I feel when I try to
express the strength I draw from you all, it compounds my faith and it
shows me yet again that this is not a case about the death penalty, this
is not a case about Troy Davis, this is a case about Justice and the
Human Spirit to see Justice prevail.

I cannot answer all of
your letters but I do read them all, I cannot see you all but I can
imagine your faces, I cannot hear you speak but your letters take me to
the far reaches of the world, I cannot touch you physically but I feel
your warmth everyday I exist.

So Thank you and remember I am
in a place where execution can only destroy your physical form but
because of my faith in God, my family and all of you I have been
spiritually free for some time and no matter what happens in the days,
weeks to come, this Movement to end the death penalty, to seek true
justice, to expose a system that fails to protect the innocent must be
accelerated. There are so many more Troy Davis’. This fight to end the
death penalty is not won or lost through me but through our strength to
move forward and save every innocent person in captivity around the
globe. We need to dismantle this Unjust system city by city, state by
state and country by country.

I can’t wait to Stand with you, no matter if that is in physical or spiritual form, I will one day be announcing,

“I AM TROY DAVIS, and I AM FREE!”

Never Stop Fighting for Justice and We will Win!

Re: Troy Davis

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