Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness were the basic principles that this great country was built on. But, recently, those principles have been tested. In fact, the whole idea of this “great” country seems to be shaky. How can a large country like America shake? It is because the principles of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are shaking. As Matthew 7:24-27 says, “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.” The same concept applies to segregation, if life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness shake, and they are our foundation, our house cannot stand. In the same sense, a house divided also cannot stand. If the colored people and the white people cannot come together as one, neither can stand. We all live in this country, whether the whites choose to acknowledge the colored people. To move forward, I believe that the white people should experience the same pain as colored people do. They should understand Mark 12:31, “The second is equally important: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ No other commandment is greater than these.” Next, there should be laws made against segregation, because making segregation illegal won’t stop it, but it will reduce it. Last, colored people should learn to respectfully and lawfully defend themselves. All people have a voice under the constitution which states, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." - Rachel Reagor