Ancestors

Toot

Written by Shannon Kay on 2025-01-20 at 08:32

For Martin Luther King, Jr., Day, I wanted to share some links to reading material.

• I Have A Dream Speech full text and audio (https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm)

• Letter from a Birmingham Jail full text (https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html)

• A Time to Break Silence (https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkatimetobreaksilence.htm) - I read this speech for the first time last year, and have been thinking about it ever since.

[#]MLK #MLKDay

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Descendants

Written by Shannon Kay on 2025-01-20 at 09:18

"We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for the victims of our nation and for those it calls "enemy," for no document from human hands can make these humans any less our brothers."

Martin Luther King, Jr: A Time to Break Silence

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Written by Shannon Kay on 2025-01-20 at 09:23

"I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society."

Martin Luther King, Jr: A Time to Break Silence

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Written by Shannon Kay on 2025-01-20 at 09:30

"This call for a worldwide fellowship that lifts neighborly concern beyond one's tribe, race, class, and nation is in reality a call for an all-embracing -- embracing and unconditional love for all mankind."

Martin Luther King, Jr: A Time to Break Silence

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Written by Shannon Kay on 2025-01-20 at 09:41

"This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with new meaning:

• My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing...*

And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true."

Martin Luther King Jr. I Have a Dream Speech

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Written by Shannon Kay on 2025-01-20 at 09:45

"We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was "illegal." It was "illegal" to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler's Germany. Even so, I am sure that, had I lived in Germany at the time, I would have aided and comforted my Jewish brothers."

Letter from a Birmingham Jail

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