This feels timely right now.
"Somehow this madness must cease. We must stop now. I speak as one who loves America...The great initiative in this war is ours. The initiative to stop it must be ours." - MLK
Showing posts with label MLK. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MLK. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Obama Told Friends He Reneged on Progressive Promises Out of Fear of MLK's Fate
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This is merely hearsay, but something that could have some merit to it given its source.
This is merely hearsay, but something that could have some merit to it given its source.
Monday, January 21, 2013
MLK: Letter From a Birmingham Jail
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"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."
"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."
Cornel West: President Obama Doesn't Deserve To Be Sworn In With MLK's Bible
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“The righteous indignation of a Martin Luther King, Jr. becomes a moment of political calculation. And that makes my blood boil. Why? Because Martin Luther King, Jr died…he died…for the three crimes against humanity that he was wrestling with. Jim Crow, traumatizing, terrorizing, stigmatizing Black people. Lynching, not just ‘segregation’ as the press likes to talk about.
“Second: Carpet bombing in Vietnam killing innocent people, especially innocent children, those are war crimes that Martin Luther King , Jr. was willing to die for. And thirdly, was poverty of all colors, he said it is a crime against humanity for the richest nation in the world to have so many of it’s precious children of all colors living in poverty and especially on the chocolate side of the nation, and on Indian reservations and Brown barrios and yellow slices and Black ghettos — we call them hoods now, but ghettos then.
“So I said to myself ain’t nothing wrong with putting your hand on the bible, even though the bible’s talking about justice, Jesus is talking about the least of these, but when you put it on Martin’s bible, I said ‘this is personal for me,’ because this is the tradition that I come out of.”
“The righteous indignation of a Martin Luther King, Jr. becomes a moment of political calculation. And that makes my blood boil. Why? Because Martin Luther King, Jr died…he died…for the three crimes against humanity that he was wrestling with. Jim Crow, traumatizing, terrorizing, stigmatizing Black people. Lynching, not just ‘segregation’ as the press likes to talk about.
“Second: Carpet bombing in Vietnam killing innocent people, especially innocent children, those are war crimes that Martin Luther King , Jr. was willing to die for. And thirdly, was poverty of all colors, he said it is a crime against humanity for the richest nation in the world to have so many of it’s precious children of all colors living in poverty and especially on the chocolate side of the nation, and on Indian reservations and Brown barrios and yellow slices and Black ghettos — we call them hoods now, but ghettos then.
“So I said to myself ain’t nothing wrong with putting your hand on the bible, even though the bible’s talking about justice, Jesus is talking about the least of these, but when you put it on Martin’s bible, I said ‘this is personal for me,’ because this is the tradition that I come out of.”
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
MLK
"Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored." - MLK
"Early morning April 4
Shot rings out in the Memphis sky
Free at last they took your life
They could not take your pride
In the name of love" - U2
King Family Wins Lawsuit Against Government (1999)
"Early morning April 4
Shot rings out in the Memphis sky
Free at last they took your life
They could not take your pride
In the name of love" - U2
King Family Wins Lawsuit Against Government (1999)
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Flashback: Dr. King Family's Civil Trial Verdict: US Government Assassinated Martin
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The King family won a civil lawsuit against the US government in which it was ruled that government agencies were guilty of "wrongful death" in the assassination of Dr. King. It is the only trial ever conducted on the MLK assassination because James Earl Ray, the alleged assassin, signed a confession at the advice of his government appointed attorney. From the time of his sentencing to the time of his death in 1998, Ray worked for a trial, but was denied.
The King family won a civil lawsuit against the US government in which it was ruled that government agencies were guilty of "wrongful death" in the assassination of Dr. King. It is the only trial ever conducted on the MLK assassination because James Earl Ray, the alleged assassin, signed a confession at the advice of his government appointed attorney. From the time of his sentencing to the time of his death in 1998, Ray worked for a trial, but was denied.
Monday, November 7, 2011
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