God, in whose service alone is perfect freedom: We offer thanks for thy prophets WilliamLloyd Garrison and Maria Stewart, who testified that we are made not by the color of our skin but by the principle formed in our soul. Fill us, like them, with the hope and determination to break every chain of enslavement, that bondage and ignorance may melt like wax before flames, and we may build that community of justice and love which is founded on Jesus Christ our cornerstone; who with thee and the Holy Spirit livest and reignest, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
OK, so at this point, why not Abraham Lincoln (R), Franklin Delano Roosevelt (D), and George Marshall. Throw in Theodore Roosevelt (R) for good measure. If not, why not? Is it because the exercise of authority and power excludes one from being “prophetic”?