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A thread of color photos of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., as we remember him on the 54th anniversary of the day he was assassinated. #MLK #DrumMajor #UntilJustice 
“I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.” #MLK
“Cowardice asks the question ‘Is it safe?’ Expediency asks the question ‘Is it politic?’ And Vanity comes along and asks the question ‘Is it popular?’ But Conscience asks the question ‘Is it right?’” #MLK
A thread of color photos of my father, as we commemorate his 93rd birthday.
#MLK #CorettaScottKing #BelovedCommunity #MLKDay #ShiftingPriorities
#MLK #CorettaScottKing #BelovedCommunity #MLKDay #ShiftingPriorities
“One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change.”
#MLK #MLKDay #ItStartsWithMe #ShiftingPriorities #BelovedCommunity
#MLK #MLKDay #ItStartsWithMe #ShiftingPriorities #BelovedCommunity
“I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”
#MLK #MLKDay
#ItStartsWithMe #ShiftingPriorities #BelovedCommunity
#MLK #MLKDay
#ItStartsWithMe #ShiftingPriorities #BelovedCommunity
#MLK #FathersDay - Many have been asking for more color photos of my father :-). Here’s a thread of color photos of him with his family:
Dinner Time. Play Time. We miss you, Daddy. #MLK
A thread of Dr. King in color, as we commemorate his 92nd birthday.
#MLK #CorettaScottKing #BelovedCommunity #MLKDay
#MLK #CorettaScottKing #BelovedCommunity #MLKDay
“One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change.” #MLK #MLKDay #BelovedCommunity
“I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos, without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world: my own government.” #MLK #MLKDay #BelovedCommunity
As we prepared to oppose the confirmation of Jeff Sessions as AG in 2017, we found in @NAACP_LDF Archives a letter #CorettaScottKing had written in opposition to his nomination to the fed bench in 1986.We submitted it to the Sen.Jud Cmtee. #IWD2020 naacpldf.org/press-release/…
The letter is devastating, thorough, unequivocal. It is a demonstration of the power of Mrs. King’s ongoing civil rights advocacy long after her husband’s death. naacpldf.org/files/about-us… #IWD2020
We thought the letter would attract the attention and concern of every member of the Sen Judiciary Cmtee in 2017 then preparing to determine whether Sessions should become AG. It was introduced into the record ny Sens. Coons & Blumenthal, but it went largely unnoticed.
In the summer of 1968, shortly after my father, #MLK, was assassinated, my mother, #CorettaScottKing, addressed @Harvard’s Class of 68. Her words concerning student/youth activism are powerful and relevant. Sharing excerpts from her message in this thread:
“In a power-drunk world, where means become ends, and violence becomes a favorite pastime, we are swiftly moving toward self-annihilation. Your generation must speak out with righteous indignation against the forces which are seeking to destroy us.” #CorettaScottKing
Wow, #CorettaScottKing! ⤵️
