Monday, 15 January 2018

Martin Luther King, Jr.,’s Searing Antiwar Speech, Fifty Years Later

quote [ At the time of his speech at Riverside Church, King had come to see war, poverty, and racism as interrelated; taking on one necessarily meant confronting the others. ]

If Martin Luther King Jr were alive today, politicians would denounce him

Letter from a Birmingham Jail [King, Jr.]
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[by raphael_the_turtle@6:03pmGMT]

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conception said @ 2:43am GMT on 16th Jan [Score:1 Underrated]
People generally forget he was a socialist as well.

http://inthesetimes.com/article/20839/martin-luther-king-jr-day-socialism-capitalism

Ussmak said @ 12:17am GMT on 16th Jan
TOP TEN WAYS MLK CHANGED YOUR LIFE! !!!!CLICK HERE!!!!
lilmookieesquire said @ 3:44am GMT on 16th Jan
You forgot the link!

(For reals though the links on the bottom were a solid reminder that he was anti-war and would have spoken out against both parties if he wasn’t assassinated.

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