honoring MLK with his words and our being and our seeing justice rolling down like waters…

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“I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.”

Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963

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“I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. … We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.”

Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence, April 4, 1967

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“America is at a crossroads of history, and it is critically important for us, as a nation and a society, to choose a new path and move upon it with resolution and courage. … Consider, for example, the spectacle of … a nation gorged on money while millions of its citizens are denied a good education, adequate health services, decent housing, meaningful employment, and even respect, and are then told to be responsible.”

Poor People’s March on Washington Announcement, December 4, 1967

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fifty-five years later after the June 19, 1968 march which MLK did not attend as he had been assassinated in April, we are at a perilous crossroads and must choose a new path which we follow unwaveringly and with great courage, great heart to be beloved community respecting the inner light, the divine spark in all our relations understanding none of us have the whole truth, we each have a thread of the truth and it is our sacred response ability to weave our thread into the web as we all co-create a cosmos that works for all… “We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality tied into a single garment of destiny. We are made to live together because of the interrelated structure of reality. It all boils down to this; that all life is interrelated.” ~ Dr. Martin Luther King ~

may the source be with us and may peace prevail on earth…

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