Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Some timely MLK quotes:
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
"Millions have chosen to move beyond the prophesying of smooth patriotism to the high grounds of firm dissent, based upon the mandates of conscience and the reading of history. Now, of course, one of the difficulties in speaking out today grows out of the fact that there are those who are seeking to equate dissent with disloyalty. It's a dog day in our nation when high level authorities will seek to use every method to silence dissent. Something is happening and people are not going to be silent. The truth must be told. And I say that those who are seeking to make it appear that anyone who opposes the war in Vietnam is a fool or a traitor or an enemy of our soldiers is a person who has taken a stand against the best in our tradition."-- Martin Luther King, Jr., April 16th, 1967, Ebenezar Baptist Church, Atlanta, GA (AUDIO)
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
"Millions have chosen to move beyond the prophesying of smooth patriotism to the high grounds of firm dissent, based upon the mandates of conscience and the reading of history. Now, of course, one of the difficulties in speaking out today grows out of the fact that there are those who are seeking to equate dissent with disloyalty. It's a dog day in our nation when high level authorities will seek to use every method to silence dissent. Something is happening and people are not going to be silent. The truth must be told. And I say that those who are seeking to make it appear that anyone who opposes the war in Vietnam is a fool or a traitor or an enemy of our soldiers is a person who has taken a stand against the best in our tradition."-- Martin Luther King, Jr., April 16th, 1967, Ebenezar Baptist Church, Atlanta, GA (AUDIO)
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