40 years ago last night, Martin Luther King predicted his death. He had been to the mountaintop, and he had seen the Promised Land.
40 years ago today, Martin Luther King left a world he had changed forever, a world integrated from bus stops to ice cream parlors.
40 years ago, Dr. King left us a legacy of nonviolence, taught us the skill of redeeming hate with love and staying positive through violence. He taught us how to make change in such a way that it changes us.
40 years ago and 15 years before I would be born in that same Memphis, Tennessee, King’s message of redemptive suffering and Love-force became immortal
40 years ago, Martin Luther King could see the other side. While we can yet see the other side of El Rio, let us not surrender to unjust laws. While we can yet see our fellow man in Mexico, let us not permit a border wall to rise up between us. While we can yet see that a river brings people and life together, let us not allow a divisive wall of hate to come between us and our brothers, our sisters.
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April 4, 2008 at 11:48 pm |
Thanks for teaching your students about more than just King’s Dream speech.