Martin Luther King Jr. at Rec Hall on Jan. 21, 1965 | Penn State University
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Martin Luther King Jr. at Rec Hall on Jan. 21, 1965 | Penn State University
It’s tempting to romanticize the words King spoke before the Lincoln Memorial. To do so, however, cheapens the courage of the nonviolent soldiers of freedom who faced—and too often paid—the ultimate price for daring America to live up to the implications of the Declaration of Independence and become a country in which liberty was innate and univers
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In 1894 at Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C., Douglass delivered the last great speech of his career. Titled “The Lessons of the Hour,” it was his attempt to make sense of the rise of Jim Crow and the violent retrenchment of the era. I want to share a little of the speech with you because I think it is worthwhile t... See more
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the Dreamers are quoting Martin Luther King and exulting nonviolence for the weak and the biggest guns for the strong.