Thread by @BerniceKing

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…