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elleng

(130,923 posts) Mon Jan 15, 2018, 03:04 PM Jan 2018

"Letter from a Birmingham Jail [King, Jr.]"

16 April 1963
My Dear Fellow Clergymen:
While confined here in the Birmingham city jail, I came across your recent statement calling my present activities "unwise and untimely." Seldom do I pause to answer criticism of my work and ideas. If I sought to answer all the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would have little time for anything other than such correspondence in the course of the day, and I would have no time for constructive work. But since I feel that you are men of genuine good will and that your criticisms are sincerely set forth, I want to try to answer your statement in what I hope will be patient and reasonable terms.

https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html

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"Letter from a Birmingham Jail [King, Jr.]" (Original Post) elleng Jan 2018 OP

Wow! Wwcd Jan 2018 #1

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Wwcd

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1. Wow!

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Mon Jan 15, 2018, 03:12 PM

Jan 2018

SNIP

"Human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability; it comes through the tireless efforts of men willing to be co workers with God, and without this hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the forces of social stagnation. We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that the time is always ripe to do right. Now is the time to make real the promise of democracy and transform our pending national elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood. Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity."

MLK jr

appalachiablue

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2. K & R

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Tue Jan 16, 2018, 11:29 AM

Jan 2018

- We must learn to live together as brothers, or perish together as fools. Martin Luther King Jr.

- Poverty is the worst form of violence. Mahatma Gandhi.

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