Politics: On the American Holiday Celebrating the Birth and Work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
From Stride Toward Freedom, by Martin Luther King, Jr, 1958:
"Every crisis has both its dangers and opportunities. It can spell either salvation or doom. In the present crisis American can achieve either racial justice or the ultimate social psychosis that can only lead to domestic suicide. The democratic ideal of freedom and equality will be fulfilled for all -- or all human being will share in the resulting social and spiritual doom. In short, this crisis has the potential for democracy's fulfillment or fascism's triumph; for social progress or retrogression. We can choose either to walk the high road of human brotherhood or tread the low road of man's inhumanity to man."
and, later:
"The shape of the world today does not permit us the luxury of a faltering democracy. The United States cannot hope to attain the respect of the vital and growing colored nations of the world unless it remedies its racial problems at home. If America is to remain a first-class nation, it cannot have a second-class citizenship."
then, finally:
The third way open to oppressed people in their quest for freedom is the way of nonviolent resistance... Nonviolence can touch men where the law cannot reach them...Today the choice is no longer between violence and nonviolence. It is either nonviolence or nonexistence."
Happy Holiday.
From Stride Toward Freedom, by Martin Luther King, Jr, 1958:
"Every crisis has both its dangers and opportunities. It can spell either salvation or doom. In the present crisis American can achieve either racial justice or the ultimate social psychosis that can only lead to domestic suicide. The democratic ideal of freedom and equality will be fulfilled for all -- or all human being will share in the resulting social and spiritual doom. In short, this crisis has the potential for democracy's fulfillment or fascism's triumph; for social progress or retrogression. We can choose either to walk the high road of human brotherhood or tread the low road of man's inhumanity to man."
and, later:
"The shape of the world today does not permit us the luxury of a faltering democracy. The United States cannot hope to attain the respect of the vital and growing colored nations of the world unless it remedies its racial problems at home. If America is to remain a first-class nation, it cannot have a second-class citizenship."
then, finally:
The third way open to oppressed people in their quest for freedom is the way of nonviolent resistance... Nonviolence can touch men where the law cannot reach them...Today the choice is no longer between violence and nonviolence. It is either nonviolence or nonexistence."
Happy Holiday.
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