Autiste à 🌊 #wokeMar 17

✒📜 Letter from #birminghamjail by Dr. #martinlutherking Jr.

I'm pinning this on my profile, as it is still very relevant, even though we are not in the 1960's #segregationist USA, during the #civilrightsmovement However, we are experiencing such a huge #backlash not only against presentd day #socialjustice claims, but also against those we thought had been granted for decades, that it can be an excellent read for political and #grassroots activists.
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https://letterfromjail.com/

Show threadnomotimeSep 6, 2024

@tomiahonen

Bucket 3 fits #MLK's disappointment with the "White Moderate" in Letter From a #BirminghamJail

Church of JeffJan 13, 2024
#MLK #ModerateWhites #MLKDay #BirminghamJail
Steve Dustcircle 🌹Apr 5, 2023
From the #BirminghamJail, #MLK Told #Christians to Fight #Injustice
https://flagpole.com/news/street-scribe/2023/04/05/from-the-birmingham-jail-mlk-told-christians-to-fight-injustice/
From the Birmingham Jail, MLK Told Christians to Fight Injustice - Flagpole

Civil rights champion Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered for soaring oratory such as his “I Have a Dream” speech in Washington in 1963, but in that same year King also penned a memorable essay, his “Letter From Birmingham Jail.”  Sixty years have passed since King wrote his jailhouse jeremiad answering moderate Protestant, Catholic and Jewish religious leaders in Birmingham, AL who had questioned the tactics and timing of peaceful protests in the city. King was jailed in Birmingham for leading racial justice demonstrations in what he called “probably the most thoroughly segregated city in the United States.” His letter was written during his confinement on Apr. 16, 1963, and its criticisms of institutionalized injustice and feckless religion resonate today. […]

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Show threadWhite GandalfJan 17, 2023

"One day the #South will #recognize its #real #heroes."

#MartinLutherKing Jr., Letter from #BirminghamJail, April 16, 1963. Image from #NASA. #MLKDay

Show threadWhite GandalfJan 17, 2023
"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." #MartinLutherKing Jr., Letter from #BirminghamJail, April 16, 1963. Image from interior of the Cannon Congressional Office Building, Washington, DC. #MLKDay
Show threadWhite GandalfJan 16, 2023
"We will have to #repent in this #generation not merely for the hateful words and #actions of the bad people but for the #appalling #silence of the #good #people." #MartinLutherKing Jr., Letter from #BirminghamJail, April 16, 1963. Image from interior of the Cannon Congressional Office Building, Washington, DC. #MLKDay
Show threadWhite GandalfJan 16, 2023
"[Y]ou assert that our #actions, even though #peaceful, must be condemned because they precipitate #violence. ... We must come to see that, as the #FederalCourts have consistently affirmed, it is #wrong to urge an #individual to cease his efforts to gain his basic #constitutional #rights because the quest may precipitate violence. #Society must #protect the robbed and punish the robber." #MartinLutherKing Jr., Letter from
#BirminghamJail, April 16, 1963. #MLKDay
White GandalfJan 16, 2023
"[W]e ... are not the creators of #tension. We merely bring to the #surface the #hidden tension that is already alive. ... Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with all its ugliness to the #natural medicines of #air and #light, #injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of #human #conscience and the air of #NationalOpinion before it can be cured." #MartinLutherKing Jr., L.fr #BirminghamJail #MLKDay
Show threadWhite GandalfJan 16, 2023
"An #UnjustLaw is a code that a numerical or power majority group compels a #minority group to obey but does not make binding on itself. This is #difference made #legal. By the same token, a #JustLaw is a code that a majority compels a minority to follow and that it is willing to follow itself. This is #sameness made legal." #MartinLutherKing Jr., Letter from #BirminghamJail, April 16, 1963. Image from interior of the Cannon Congressional Office Building, Washington, DC. #MLKDay