Wednesday, January 20, 2016

A pilgrimage........................


"I had grown up abhorring not only segregation but also the oppressive and barbarous acts that grew out of it. I had passed spots where Negroes had been savagely lynched, and had watched the Ku KIux Klan on its rides at night. I had seen police brutality with my own eyes, and watched Negroes receive the most tragic injustice in the courts. All of these things had done something to my growing personality. I had come perilously close to resenting all white people."

-Martin Luther King, Jr., as excerpted from his essay "My Pilgrimage to Nonviolence"

This is truly a remarkable essay.  I urge you to read study it.

thanks mark

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