6 Truths for the Trump Years – Martin Luther King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail”
A black man in prison in a racist southern city in 1963 was a man whose life was in danger. ...
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Prophets MUST Improvise, In and For Our Cities – a review of “Resurrection City” by Peter Goodwin Heltzel
The prophet’s task is to “reorder” and “refashion” the urban environment to be more just and...
Read MoreObama at Ebenezer Baptist – Crucial Moral Values for America (as in: Love Your Neighbor)
In January of 2008 Barack Obama gave a powerful speech (sermon) on the meaning of Martin Luther King Jr. for America today. This was at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, where King was raised and his father was the pastor....
Read MoreOn War – and Its Effects on Humans
Quotes from the e-newsletter I get from Information Clearing House. … the United States, for generations, has sustained two parallel but opposed states of mind about military atrocities and human rights: one of U.S....
Read MoreReal Evil Is Very Stubborn – M L King Jr
A couple weeks ago I’d selected a Martin Luther King quote about evil to publish here. But it’s decidedly uncheery, and I left it off. Then we were looking at a PowerPoint series my son prepared for a college class...
Read MoreMLK Jr on Ends vs Means
You know the old problem: Must we do evil that good may come? Or, as Connie expressed it recently, “Can you [a group or a nation] survive by not being evil? I wonder what that would look like.” Means and ends must...
Read MoreNurse – Philosopher Makes Case for COMPASSION, CARING as a Primary Value
I’ve been over at that nursing blog again (see “Fear and Courage in the Ambulance”). Here are some quotes about a Norwegian philosopher-nurse justifying compassion as a basic value. Kari Martinsen is an intense...
Read MoreM L King Opposed Our Vietnam War. What About Iraq? Juan Cole.
Juan Cole, Professor of History at the University of Michigan, has done excellent work (as is his reputation) in compiling this list of “10 Things Martin Luther King Would Have Done about Iraq”. He analyzes...
Read MoreRemembering Martin Luther King Jr – Moral & Intellectual Integrity
On this, the anniversary of the murder of Dr. King, let me commend to you the recent post by Rob Couto. It has excerpts from a speech King gave in New York City, one year before his murder, laying out very clearly and powerfully...
Read MoreMartin Luther King on War: “A Time Comes When Silence is Betrayal”
“For the sake of those boys, for the sake of this government, for the sake of hundreds of thousands trembling under our violence, I cannot be silent.”
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Short Quotes – Martin Luther King’s "Letter from Birmingham Jail"*
[See also: Advice from King for the Trump Years]King’s letter is one of many treasuresoften...
Read MoreM L King: Christian Morality With Mind And Will
Every year in my Ethics class I assign “Letter from Birmingham Jail” by Martin Luther King Jr. In 1963, while under arrest for parading without a permit, he wrote this response to criticisms of him by other southern...
Read MoreMartin Luther King on War, from a Sermon
Here are excerpts from a sermon by Martin Luther King, primarily on war. There are some very potent remarks here. He was referring primarily to the Vietnam mess, but the remarks travel very well to our current behavior. (This is...
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