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Letter: Before invoking prayer in a crisis, Gov. Cox should should heed the words of an American icon

In this Wednesday, June 24, 2020, photograph, a woman walks past a mural in tribute to Frederick Douglass in the South End neighborhood of Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Gov. Cox has once again chosen prayer as his primary tool in crisis management. Should need arise again, I suggest he seeks higher counsel by solving the ironically appropriate Cryptoquote in a recent edition of The Tribune.

Spoiler alert.

The author is Frederick Douglass, a self-educated, escaped slave, writer, orator and true American icon: “I prayed for freedom for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.”

Kirk Thomas, Salt Lake City

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