Excerpts from a sermon preached by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. four days before he was assassinated.
We are coming to ask America to be true to the huge promissory note that it signed years ago. And we are coming to engage in dramatic nonviolent action, to call attention to the gulf between promise and fulfillment; [...]
By Michael Honey
The Progressive Online, January 19, 2009
What would Martin Luther King, Jr., whose birthday we celebrate on January ninetenth, say to Barack Obama, inaugurated as President of the United States on January twentieth? A friend of mine is judging student essays on that question for the King Holiday. It is a good question, with [...]
By Fred McKissack
November 5, 2008
Moments after CNN declared Sen. Barack Obama the next president of the United States, I called my parents. I could tell my father was beaming. Through Obama, he could see the future for his grandsons and their peers – a collective sense of inclusion that has eluded the race for so [...]
Making the Link Between Iraq and Vietnam:
Adapting the words of Martin Luther King about Vietnam to the war in Iraq
1) It’s time to break the silence over the war in Iraq and take a stand… We are all responsible for ending the war… The great initiative to begin this war was ours, the great initiative to [...]
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Riverside Church, New York, April 4, 1967
A time comes when silence is betrayal. That time has come for us in relation to Vietnam.
The truth of these words is beyond doubt, but the mission to which they call us is a most difficult one. Even when pressed by the demands of inner [...]