Happy MLK Day!
Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2024 5:14 pm
Stay warm and safe, and remember the basic human freedoms MLK fought for.
But 100 years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled
by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely
island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later the Negro is still
languished in the corners of American society and finds himself in exile in his own land. And so we've come here today
to dramatize a shameful condition. In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check...
- Martin Luther King (8/28/63)
Rack the advancement of the Negro!
But 100 years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled
by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely
island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later the Negro is still
languished in the corners of American society and finds himself in exile in his own land. And so we've come here today
to dramatize a shameful condition. In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check...
- Martin Luther King (8/28/63)
Rack the advancement of the Negro!
