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ContagiousInspiration
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 Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2018 3:06 pm Post subject: Martin Luther King Day 2018 - Thank you for a beautiful dream |
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One EVERY race could embrace and believe in... I have hope
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_a_Dream
Martin Luther King was labeled an "Enemy of The State" by the
United States FBI.
President John F. Kennedy and Robert Kennedy
gave J. Edgar Hoover permission to give him that label...
They planted FAKE NEWS stories in newspapers
Sent him hate mail letters
Sent him mail telling him to kill himself
Bugged his hotel rooms and sent the audio tapes to his wife
http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/king/images/fbifiles/other/full/10.jpg
August 30th 1963
Mr. W. C. Sullivan
Director of FBI Intelligence Operations
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as the most dangerous Negro of the future in this Nation from the standpoint of communism, the Negro and national security. |
Lets hope Baracks legacy continues to grow... telling us we should all be brothers and sisters and look out for each other...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/transcript-president-obamas-speech-on-the-50th-anniversary-of-the-march-on-washington/2013/08/28/0138e01e-0ffb-11e3-8cdd-bcdc09410972_story.html?utm_term=.03b9b2277131
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Many had gone to segregated schools and sat at segregated lunch counters, had lived in towns where they couldn't vote, in cities where their votes didn't matter. There were couples in love who couldn't marry, soldiers who fought for freedom abroad that they found denied to them at home. They had seen loved ones beaten and children fire- hosed. And they had every reason to lash out in anger or resign themselves to a bitter fate.
And yet they chose a different path. In the face of hatred, they prayed for their tormentors. In the face of violence, they stood up and sat in with the moral force of nonviolence. Willingly, they went to jail to protest unjust laws, their cells swelling with the sound of freedom songs. A lifetime of indignities had taught them that no man can take away the dignity and grace that God grants us. They had learned through hard experience what Frederick Douglas once taught: that freedom is not given; it must be won through struggle and discipline, persistence and faith.
That was the spirit they brought here that day.
That was the spirit young people like John Lewis brought that day. That was the spirit that they carried with them like a torch back to their cities and their neighborhoods, that steady flame of conscience and courage that would sustain them through the campaigns to come, through boycotts and voter registration drives and smaller marches, far from the spotlight, through the loss of four little girls in Birmingham, the carnage of Edmund Pettus Bridge and the agony of Dallas, California, Memphis. Through setbacks and heartbreaks and gnawing doubt, that flame of justice flickered and never died.
And because they kept marching, America changed. Because they marched, the civil rights law was passed. Because they marched, the voting rights law was signed. Because they marched, doors of opportunity and education swung open so their daughters and sons could finally imagine a life for themselves beyond washing somebody else's laundry or shining somebody else's shoes. (Applause.) Because they marched, city councils changed and state legislatures changed and Congress changed and, yes, eventually the White House changed. (Cheers, applause.)
Because they marched, America became more free and more fair, not just for African-Americans but for women and Latinos, Asians and Native Americans, for Catholics, Jews and Muslims, for gays, for Americans with disabilities.
America changed for you and for me.
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The dream lives on in all who understand that the only way forward is together, as a collective species.
I really thought we'd be farther along in that understanding by now.
Sadly we wont acknowledge this simple truth until our backs are firmly against the wall. |
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Volunteered today to help out some families, uff, just got back and
we're looking bad on the court today...
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