Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
spoonietee
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Enjoy the holiday if you get it off from work/school, but please remember the man for whom today is named.
http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/frequentdocs/birmingham.pdf
http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/frequentdocs/birmingham.pdf
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I really love this sermon. Touches on all themes of his struggle, Racism, Militarism, and the Rich's never-ending class war on you and i.
http://www.blueoregon.com/2009/01/memphis-sanitat/
^^QFE, sadly Canada pays no recognition..
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it gets me a little irked every year when Martin gets boiled down to four lines of "i have a dream" all we want to do is hold hands. My man was really revving up the engines, speaking truth to power and broadening the scope. Once in a lifetime leader.
I say this here every year. I also always post a link to his Letter From Birmingham Jail.
One of the greatest pieces or persuasive writing ever. And the explanation for why we protest.
King was in jail, in Birmingham. He had been arrested for organizing a peaceful demonstration.
8 Birmingham clergy members, who acknowledged the need for change, wrote a letter urging him to call of the protest and wait for change. Her is his response:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_from_Birmingham_Jail
What he did for this planet transcends this day.
Cosine
Playing soul music every week across the street from the Lorraine Motel keeps his legacy in my mind like a chisel to marble.
This was an amazing sermon. Had me tearing up during parts of it. I listened to all of it this morning while playing Cecil Payne's "Martin Luther King Jr." on repeat. Thanks for the heart stirring my friend.
If only U.S. society today could truly embrace his message, and abandon all the vitriol and self-interest. I can't imagine how much better our country and world would be.
Peace,
Big Stacks from Kakalak