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YvonneM's avatar

A beautiful man, with a beautiful message. Accepting other people's voices, viewpoints, and opinions, without judgement, without malice is the first step toward peace. If we start there America, it will have no choice but to spread to others, eventually, around the world.

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anita dutt's avatar

A great speech, one that will not be quoted today in many places, was King's "A Time to Break Silence" sometimes titled "Beyond Vietnam", given at Riverside Church, April 4, 1967.

"A time comes when silence is betrayal." He went on at length, as Kennedy often does, to explain the depth of his understanding. What would MLK, Jr., say today about Gaza? What would he ask

of the founder of an organization called Children's Defense Fund, with its vision of "a nation committed to equity and justice where children ...live with dignity, hope, and joy"-- only a nation?

Not a world?

https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkatimetobreaksilence.htm

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