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Commitment Card
The pledge outlines ten commitments for nonviolent action in the civil rights movement, including daily meditation, love, service, and following movement instructions for freedom and justice.
minio.la.utexas.eduBrothers in the Beloved Community: The Friendship of Thich Nhat Hanh and Martin Luther King Jr.
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In 1858, rising politician Abraham Lincoln told an audience: “I ask you in all soberness, if all these things, if indulged in, if ratified, if confirmed and endorsed, if taught to our children, and repeated to them, do not tend to rub out the sentiment of liberty in the country, and to transform this Government into a government of some other form.
... See moreHeather Cox Richardson • Democracy Awakening
“You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Shane Claiborne • The Irresistible Revolution, Updated and Expanded: Living as an Ordinary Radical
black insurrection in Detroit in the summer of 1967. I had moved the year before to teach in Adrian, Michigan, just seventy miles from Detroit. I remember the feeling of dread and absurdity as I asked myself, What has all this to do with Jesus Christ—his birth in Bethlehem, his baptism with and life among the poor, and his death and resurrection? I
... See moreJames H. Cone • God of the Oppressed
Martin Luther King, Jr., said, “Even if it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, go on out and sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures; sweep streets like Handel and Beethoven composed music; sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry; sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, ‘Here lived a great str
... See moreCole Arthur Riley • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
Our unswerving devotion to monopolistic capitalism makes us more concerned about the economic security of the captains of industry than for the laboring men whose sweat and skills keep industry functioning.