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FREEDOM
- By John Kitsco
- Published 10/11/2010
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In his essay, 'Letter from Birmingham Jail' Martin Luther King
wrote these strong and memorable words:
'Injustice anywhere is a threat to injustice everywhere, we are
caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single
garment of destiny. Whateve affects one directly, affects us all
indirectly.
-and he continues with these powerful words...
'We have waited for more than 340 years for our constitutional
and God-given rights....we still creep at horse- and -
buggy pace toward gaining a cup of coffee at a lunch counter...
but when you have seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will and drown your sisters and brothers at whim;
when you have seen hate-filled policemen curse, kick and even
kill your black brothers and sisters;when you see the vast majority of your twenty million Negro brothers smothering
in an airtight cage of poverty in the midst of an affluent society;
when you suddenly find your tongue twisted and your speech stammering as you seek to explain to your six year old daughter
why she can't go to the amusement park that has just been advertised on television, and see tears welling up in her eyes when she is told that funtown is closed to colored children, and see ominous clouds of inferiority beginning to form in her little mental sky,and see her beginning to distort her personality by developing an unconscious bitterness toward white people; when you have to concoct an answer for a five year old son who is asking: Daddy, why do white people treat colored people so mean?; when you take a cross-country drive and find it necessary to sleep night after night in the unconfortable corners of your automobile because no motel will accept you;when you are humiliated day in and day out by nagging signs reading
white and colored...and he goes on....
to quote St. Augustine who wrote that an-unjust law is no law at all....
The above is only a portion of the powerful writings of Martin Luther King and brings to mind the absolute need for vigilance to ensure that everyone but everyone is respected and has the right to FREEDOM... Let us not forget!!!
wrote these strong and memorable words:
'Injustice anywhere is a threat to injustice everywhere, we are
caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single
garment of destiny. Whateve affects one directly, affects us all
indirectly.
-and he continues with these powerful words...
'We have waited for more than 340 years for our constitutional
and God-given rights....we still creep at horse- and -
buggy pace toward gaining a cup of coffee at a lunch counter...
but when you have seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will and drown your sisters and brothers at whim;
when you have seen hate-filled policemen curse, kick and even
kill your black brothers and sisters;when you see the vast majority of your twenty million Negro brothers smothering
in an airtight cage of poverty in the midst of an affluent society;
when you suddenly find your tongue twisted and your speech stammering as you seek to explain to your six year old daughter
why she can't go to the amusement park that has just been advertised on television, and see tears welling up in her eyes when she is told that funtown is closed to colored children, and see ominous clouds of inferiority beginning to form in her little mental sky,and see her beginning to distort her personality by developing an unconscious bitterness toward white people; when you have to concoct an answer for a five year old son who is asking: Daddy, why do white people treat colored people so mean?; when you take a cross-country drive and find it necessary to sleep night after night in the unconfortable corners of your automobile because no motel will accept you;when you are humiliated day in and day out by nagging signs reading
white and colored...and he goes on....
to quote St. Augustine who wrote that an-unjust law is no law at all....
The above is only a portion of the powerful writings of Martin Luther King and brings to mind the absolute need for vigilance to ensure that everyone but everyone is respected and has the right to FREEDOM... Let us not forget!!!
