Word for the day "The Other America"
As Grace and Truth Leadership continues to stand on the shoulders of great leaders like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Let's see his prophetic voice about our country America in a snippet from his speech called "The Other America"
"There is another America, and that other America has a daily ugliness about it that transforms the buoyancy of hope into the fatigue of despair. By the millions, people in the other America find themselves perishing on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. . . .The great tragedy is that the nation continues in its national policy to ignore the conditions that brought the riots or the rebellions into being. The problem with a riot is that it can always be halted by superior force, so I couldn’t advise that. On the other hand, I couldn’t advise following a path of Martin Luther King just sitting around signing statements, and writing articles condemning the rioters, or engaging in a process of timid supplications for justice. The fact is that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor. It must be demanded by the oppressed—that’s the long, sometimes tragic and turbulent story of history.”
“The Other America,” delivered by Dr. King at the Local 1199’s “Salute to Freedom,” New York City, March 10, 1968. We can see many parallels in the times we are living in now in America, to what Dr. King shared in 1968. You can read the whole transcript Here. Read more
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