Pastor of Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, he rose to national prominence through the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Awarded the Nobel Prize in 1964, Congress set aside his birthday as a national holiday.
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., said Aug, 28, 1963: “Now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all of God’s children. … In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. … New militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny and their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone.”
On April 16, 1963, Rev. King wrote: “I stand in the middle of two opposing forces in the Negro community. One is a force of complacency. … The other force is one of bitterness and hatred, and it comes perilously close to advocating violence. It is expressed in the various black nationalist groups that are springing up across the nation, the largest and best-known being Elijah Muhammad’s Muslim movement. … I have tried to stand between these two forces, saying that we need emulate neither the ‘do-nothing-ism’ of the complacent nor the hatred of the black nationalist. For there is the more excellent way of love and non-violent protest. I am grateful to God that, through the influence of the Negro church, the way of non-violence became an integral part of our struggle.”
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It's time to read these words again, and again, until all realize that violence and hatred are not the answers.
ReplyDeleteI wonder what he would think of obama holder sharpscum.
ReplyDeleteHe was shot in 1968. Many in this day have never even heard these words. They only know what they've been 'told' about Dr. King and what he believed and did.
ReplyDeleteHe certainly wasn't perfect, but he had a lot of good values and ideas.
And I suspect he would have been pretty upset by some of the things that have been said and done using him as justification.
Sick of hearing about him to be honest. Plenty of great man did more with less and get a day. The blacks have done NOTHING to continue what he started and yet they still cry the same lines year after year.
ReplyDeleteKing would be just like Jackson, Sharpton if he had lived. Pure BS. Black propaganda! !!
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