🧵 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
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Me and my mother, #CorettaScottKing, at my father, Rev. Dr. #MartinLutherKingJr’s, funeral service at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta.
I’m sharing this thread of photos, not to cause sadness, but to remind us of a cause as critical today as it was then.
The Triple Evils (racism, poverty, and militarism) that my father was working to eradicate still persist.
As a result, families, communities, villages, and nations are mourning at this very moment.
Daddy wasn’t assassinated because he said he wanted his children to be judged “by the content of their character.”
He was gunned down because he was courageously and strategically working to dismantle those Triple Evils.
He was speaking truth to power in government, media, and religion about the Vietnam War, about economic injustice + racial injustice, about ‘The Other America’ (youtu.be/dOWDtDUKz-U), about the violence of the U.S. government.
We can overcome and eradicate persistent evils with persistent, consistent good, as demonstrated by truth and strategic, love-centered, courageous action.
My parents believed.
I believe.
#MLK #thankyouMLK
📸 My sister, Yoki (Yolanda), carrying me at the public service for my father @Morehouse. #MLK #thankyouMLK
Grieving parents.
My paternal grandparents, Reverend MLK, Sr. and Alberta King, at the funeral service for my father at Ebenezer Baptist Church.
This #MLKDay, I’m sharing these #MLKInColor photos of my father. Please share your thoughts. Are there any you’ve never seen before? Any that are particularly great to you?
#MLK #MissionPossibleMLK #CorettaScottKing
This #MLKDay, I’m sharing these #MLKInColor photos of my father. Please share your thoughts. Are there any you’ve never seen before? Any that are particularly great to you?
#MLK #MissionPossibleMLK #CorettaScottKing
This #MLKDay, I’m sharing these #MLKInColor photos of my father. Please share your thoughts. Are there any you’ve never seen before? Any that are particularly great to you?
🧵Today, we commemorate #Juneteenth, a day that acknowledges the emancipation of the last enslaved Black people in the United States. This day, also known as #FreedomDay, represents a pivotal moment in our nation's history—
a step towards justice, equality, and the recognition of our shared humanity.
As we celebrate this historic day, let us remember the words of my father:
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” #MartinLutherKingJr
Juneteenth is not only a day to reflect on the past but also a time to renew our commitment to fighting for justice and equality. Let us use this day to educate ourselves, engage in meaningful conversations, and take actions that contribute to a more just and inclusive society.
🧵“During the genocidal war in #Tigray…millions of families in were starved by a state sanctioned siege and the destruction of farms, tools, markets, and land by occupying forces.”