A 🧵 of #MLK writings/speeches (plus color photos) to get you started or continue your exploration.
Includes:
#LetterFromBirminghamJail #TheOtherAmerica #BeyondVietnam #ThreeEvilsOfSociety
#WorldHouse
*The World House* chapter from #MLK’s last book, ‘Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?’ Here’s an excerpt from that chapter, but I encourage you to read the entire book: beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2010…
“Nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation.” #MLK #NobelPeacePrize
“It's more difficult today because we are struggling now for genuine equality. And it's much easier to integrate a lunch counter than it is to guarantee a livable income and a good solid job.” From ‘The Other America.’ #MLK
“This problem of spiritual and moral lag, which constitutes modern man's chief dilemma, expresses itself in three larger problems which grow out of man's ethical infantilism.” From #MLK ’s Nobel Peace Prize Lecture, ‘The Quest for Peace and Justice’
From ‘Paul’s Letter to American Christians’: “Oh America, how often have you taken necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes.” #MLK
“We’re coming to get our check.” #MLK
MUST-WATCH/LISTEN - Not a speech or a sermon, but an interview in which Daddy shares powerfully and brilliantly. #MLK
“I never intend to adjust myself to racial segregation and discrimination. I never intend to adjust myself to religious bigotry...”
Brief, but still #MLK.
Are you maladjusted and proud?
Daddy in 1967, sounding like he’s talking in 2022: “And so the collision course is set. The people cry for freedom and the congress attempts to legislate repression.”
From ‘The Three Evils of Society.’ #MLK
‘Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence’
Please spend some time with it.
“If America's soul becomes totally poisoned, part of the autopsy must read: Vietnam. It can never be saved so long as it destroys the deepest hopes of men the world over.” #MLK
‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’
NECESSARY reading.
“You deplore the demonstrations taking place in Birmingham. But your statement, I am sorry to say, fails to express a similar concern for the conditions that brought about the demonstrations.” #MLK
africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/L…
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