King, Martin Luther

Keeping the Dream Alive on the U.S.-Mexico Border

October 17, 2008

By Father Michael Seifert If Dr. Martin Luther King were alive today, he’d be marching in the Rio Grande Valley. Forty years after his death, it is here that his lovely dream of equality for all God’s children is suffering to be born. Dr. King rightly named poverty as a blight on the American...
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Poverty, Racism and the War in Iraq: The Winds of Change Are Rising in 2008

October 17, 2008

Scott Wright Spring, 2008 This year marks the 40th anniversary of the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. As a nation, we celebrate his birthday on January 15; as people of faith, perhaps we ought to dedicate April 4 as the day of his martyrdom. Where are we today, 40 years later, in...
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Without Vision, the People Will Perish

October 16, 2008

By Scott Wright Fall 2007 Perhaps more than anytime in recent history, America stands at a crossroads: a place where we must elect to choose one path or another and, in the words of the poet Robert Frost, our choice “will make all the difference.” This is especially true with respect to two competing...
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We Must Celebrate King for His Antiwar Activism

October 15, 2008

Barbara Ransby University of Illinois at Chicago This Martin Luther King Jr. Day, as American deaths in Iraq exceed 3,000 and Iraqi casualties climb into the hundreds of thousands, we need to remember King’s words of wisdom about the perils of war. King was not only an advocate of desegregation and civil rights, but...
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