I can't help wondering what MLK would say if he were confronted with our hyper individualistic, reverse Robin Hood nation. Thunderclaps ahead.
“If we are to have peace on earth, out loyalties must become
ecumenical rather than sectional. Our loyalties must transcend our race, our
tribe, our class and our nations; and this means we must develop a world
perspective. No individual can live alone, no nation can live alone, and as
long as we try, the more we are going to have war in this world. Now, the
judgment of God is upon us, and we must either learn to live together as
brothers, or we are all going to perish together as fools.” Martin Luther King from
his 1967 Christmas Eve Sermon on Peace.
Funny, when the fundies warn us about the judgment of God
they aren’t sending the same message as Dr. King. If want to know where you
might find him if he returned to earth tomorrow go by the words of Coretta Scott
King in the original intro to the 1968 collection of speeches.
“the killers of the dream could end his life with a single
bullet, but not all the bullets in all the arsenals can effect his death. We
will not have to search for him. Listen
for him in the protests of the poor – black and white. Look for him in the
places where social evils are nonviolently resisted by proud brave people.
Listen for him in the ever increasing chorus of committed individuals. Remember
him as a man who tried to be “a drum major for justice, a drum major for peace,
a drum major for righteousness,” Remember him as a man who refused to lose
faith in the ultimate redemption of mankind.”
Coretta Scott King in the intro to Trumpet of Conscience.
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