Saturday, September 26, 2015

Self-Reflection upon a Nation


Interesting. Lioness Daiba Sala, you assembled five quotes said by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. seldom said in public forums. You titled this: "MLK QUOTES WHITE PEOPLE DONT QUOTE" I imagine, thinking about how Dr. King has become a benevolent figure fighting for all people over the past few decades. He was first and foremost fighting for his people and his philosophical musings came from that framework. To minimize him his large body of thought and work is a continuous playing of his speech in 1963. The deep challenges to American thought from Dr. King challenged white people's ideals and perceptions like no other in large part because he was Western educated and telling the truth to their powers. Those who marched and protested then mirrored the gross contradictions white America believed in. It was an awful time Dr. King spoke into and against!

"Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed." -
Martin Luther King, Jr.

"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

"A riot is the language of the unheard." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
  

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