Thread by @jmikolay

LISTEN to the words of @BerniceKing

I organized and distilled her last 3,000 tweets into a summary of her big ideas, in two parts…

Read and Share Part 1⃣: Social Justice and Social Progress

Racism exists…
🔷Racism is not a hoax
🔷Racism is not a myth
🔷Racism is not a thing of the past

Racism kills…
🔷Racism is dangerous
🔷Racism is destructive
🔷Racism is dehumanizing

Racism is systemic…
🔷Racism is social
🔷Racism is structural
🔷Racism is power-hungry

Racism prevents progress…
🔷Racism cultivates bigotry
🔷Racism plows through respectability
🔷Racism makes everything about race

But there’s hope…
🔷Hope is being honest
🔷Hope is believing there’s more
🔷Hope is engaging in the work for more

We need truth…
🔷Truth is love
🔷Truth fortifies
🔷Truth abounds
🔷Truth precedes reconciliation

Change is rooted in love…
🔷Love is active
🔷Love is reactive
🔷Love is proactive

Love works for justice…
🔷It changes hearts
🔷It changes policies
🔷It changes systems
🔷It changes rhetoric
🔷It changes behaviors

And love is more than kindness…
🔷Love is potent
🔷Love is reverent
🔷Love is undefeated
🔷Love is transcendent
🔷Love is authentic worship
🔷Love is resistance to hate and injustice

Justice corrects what stands against love…
🔷Justice is power
🔷Justice is tangible
🔷Justice is indivisible
🔷Justice is beyond noise
🔷Justice is on the path to civility
🔷Justice is LOVE applied to systems and cultures

Do not adjust yourself to injustice…
🔷Resist
🔷Be maladjusted
🔷Refuse to succumb to apathy
🔷Never intend to adjust yourself
🔷(Refusing to hate does not equal refusing to resist injustice)

If you’re not working for JUSTICE, stop calling for PEACE…
🔷True peace is not the absence of tension
🔷True peace is the presence of justice

Nonviolence is the way…
🔷Nonviolence is active
🔷Nonviolence is principled
🔷Nonviolence is love-centered
🔷Nonviolence is noncooperation with evil
🔷(Let provocateurs leave empty handed)

Build people power…
🔷Vote
🔷Work
🔷March
🔷Boycott
🔷Advocate
🔷Be informed
🔷Get involved
🔷Pay attention
🔷Take direct action
🔷Engage in strategic protest
🔷Get involved in local issues
🔷Connect with coalitions and movements
🔷Organize strength into compelling power

CALL TO THE NATION: Black lives do matter…
🔷Black Lives Matter is an invitation
🔷Black Lives Matter does not exclude
🔷Black Lives Matter is a call to denounce the evils of racism
🔷Black Lives Matter is activism committed to ensuring Black lives are a part of the ALL

Love Black people…
🔷Do something to save Black lives
🔷Encourage someone Black today
🔷Speak truth to White people in power
🔷Until Black people are free, no one is fully free
🔷Black people shouldn’t have to be brutalized to be seen

Be antiracist…
🔷Step up
🔷Speak out
🔷Shape change
🔷Gather information
🔷Commit to better understanding
🔷Have the courage to work for justice

Supplant racism with truth, equity, justice, and love…
🔷See human beings
🔷Love your neighbor
🔷Heighten your language
🔷Beckon yourself far above civility
🔷Make every breath count for your ancestors, for your God, and for humanity

Remember, you are Someone…
🔷You have a role
🔷You matter greatly
🔷You are a part of us all

Find the rest here...

Part 2⃣: @BerniceKing's Curated Quotes on Civil Rights and Social Justice

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