Thread by @BerniceKing

A thread of color photos of my father, as we commemorate his 93rd birthday.

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“One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change.”

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“I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”

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“Our goal is to create a beloved community and this will require a qualitative change in our souls as well as a quantitative change in our lives.”

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“I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos, without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world: my own government.”

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“I hope the church as a whole will meet the challenge of this decisive hour.”

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“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”

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“The time has come for an all-out world war against poverty. The rich nations must use their vast resources of wealth to develop the underdeveloped, school the unschooled, and feed the unfed. Ultimately, a great nation is a compassionate nation.” #MLK  #MLKDay #CorettaScottKing

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“The way of acquiescence leads to moral and spiritual suicide. The way of violence leads to bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers. But the way of nonviolence leads to redemption and the creation of the beloved community.”

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“I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality…I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.”

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“We adopt the means of nonviolence because our end is a community at peace with itself. We will try to persuade with our words, but if our words fail, we will try to persuade with our acts.”

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“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.”

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

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“Nothing could be more tragic than for men to live in these revolutionary times and fail to achieve the new attitudes and the new mental outlooks that the new situation demands.”

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"I suggest that the philosophy and strategy of nonviolence become immediately a subject for study for serious experimentation in every field of human conflict, by no means excluding the relations between nations.”

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“Our nettlesome task is to discover how to organize our strength into compelling power so that government cannot elude our demands.”

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“Our eternal message of hope is that dawn will come.”

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"I still have faith in the future...I will not join anyone who will say that we still can't develop a coalition of conscience."

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