Thread by @BerniceKing

🧵 On his 95th birthday, I wanted to share some color photos of Daddy. It wasn’t that long ago… #MLKDay #MLK95 #MLK

“We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that the time is always ripe to do right.” #MLKDay #MLK95 #MLK

“Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism.” #MLKDay #MLK95 #MLK

“Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter — but beautiful — struggle for a new world.” #MLKDay #MLK95 #MLK

“True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.” #MLKDay #MLK95 #MLK

“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.” #MLKDay #MLK95 #MLK

“A Church that has lost its voice for justice is a Church that has lost its relevance in the world.” #MLKDay #MLK95 #MLK

Daddy with his daughters, me and Yoki (Yolanda). #MLKDay #MLK95 #MLK

Kings. #MLKDay #MLK95 #MLK #CorettaScottKing

“Ain’t gonna let nobody turn me around.”

My parents on vacation in Jamaica. #MLKDay #MLK95 #MLK #CorettaScottKing

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” #MLKDay #MLK95 #MLK

“I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land.” #MLKDay #MLK95 #MLK

“Some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak. We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak.” #MLKDay #MLK95 #MLK