Monday, January 19, 2009

'Where Do We Go From Here' - Martin Luther King Jr.

In remembrance....

'Where Do We Go From Here'

Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Atlanta, Georgia
16 August 1967










- "Your whole structure must be changed." A nation that will keep people in slavery for 244 years will "thingify" them - make them things. Therefore they will exploit them, and poor people generally, economically. And a nation that will exploit economically will have to have foreign investments and everything else, and will have to use its military might to protect them. All of these problems are tied together. What I am saying today is that we must go from this convention and say, "America, you must be born again!"

- Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love. And this is what we must see as we move on.

- Make a career if humanity...and you will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in

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