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Category: Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Prayer, and his relationship with a higher power, was central to the life of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Today’s post, a poem written in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is from poet, activist, and scholar Sonia Sanchez.
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“Free at Last! Free at Last!” God grant that right here in America and all over this world, we will choose the high way; a way in which men will live together as brothers. A way in which the nations of the world will beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks.…
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The Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth, a courageous leader of the civil rights movement, died today at the age of 89. You can read his obituary at the New York Times or at the Washington Post. In Rev. Shuttlesworth’s memory, we share the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: There was one threat to the reign of white supremacy in…
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“The only real revolutionary, people say, is a man who has nothing to lose. There are millions of poor people in this country who have very little, or even nothing, to lose.” Dr. King’s words still ring true today.
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People forget that Dr. King was every bit as committed to economic justice as he was to ending racial segregation. In this excerpt from All Labor Has Dignity, he ties together the War in Vietnam with the problems facing the labor movement.
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“I thought of twenty million black people who dreamed that some day they might be able to cross the Red Sea of injustice and find their way to the promised land of integration and freedom. There was no more room for doubt.”
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In his final book, Martin Luther King, Jr., demanded an end to global suffering, asserting that humankind-for the first time-has the resources and technology to eradicate poverty
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The Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial in Washington, D.C., officially opens to the public today. In honor of this historic event, we’ll be posting excerpts from books in The King Legacy series on Beacon Broadside every day this week.
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Now out in paperback: Charles Euchner’s powerful history of one of our nation’s most important moments.
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