Martin Luther King, Jr: A Man of Courage

We remember a sanitized MLK: the "I have a dream" King. But while he had dreams for the future, the real man lived in the present. He consistently opposed injustice and wrong-doing.

And he suffered public rebuke, death threats, disassociation from within the black community, and more.

With these quotes, taken from his speech at Riverside Church in NYC in April 1967, I hope to contribute to a historical correction. May we remember the man who wasn't afraid to look un-American, when justice was on the line.

Credits: Stills from Archives.gov, public domain; Audio from http://www.americanrhetoric.com/; Video from http://www.archive.org/details/1967-04-18_Peace_March, creative commons, no rights reserved; music clip creative commons plus, created by Kazuki Mishima http://ccmixter.org/people/lunasspecto/profile.

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[EmmaYaBasta]

when the Tea Party is able to get airtime to blame centre-left Obamacrats for the AZ shootings (it's okay, no one else can understand their reasoning either), and when Glenn Beck's new Black Robes Regiment and the Constitution Party xenophobes claims it is working in the tradition of MLK, it's worth listening to the good doctor himself

[stigander]

if only Dr King was alive today..

[MrAlQ]

more people need to hear this