🧵 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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🧵“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.”
Please don’t use my father to suggest or assert that #respectability cures #racism.
The white supremacy affirming racist discriminates against Black bodies whether the bodies are in sharp suits or sagging pants.
Lastly...my father was assassinated while dressed “respectably.”
I encourage engaging with respect.
But respectability (which is different) doesn’t cure racism.
And racism has no regard for either.
RESPECTFULNESS is about my standards for engaging earth and humanity. RESPECTABILITY is about me having to meet someone else’s standards in order for them to respect and not violate me psychologically, physically or systemically. And their standards are convenient for them.
Happening today at 6 pm ET. "I stand for all those whose names have been lost in time and those resting in marked and unmarked graves."
These are among the powerful words that Mother #ViolaFletcher, the oldest living survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, shares in her memoir, 'Don't Let Them Bury My Story: The Oldest Living Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre In Her Own Words.'
In standing with Mother Fletcher, The King Center presents a special Beloved Community Talks event featuring Mother Fletcher, her grandson and co-author, Ike Howard, and the CEO of The King Center, Dr. Bernice A. King.