this date in history
Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. was born this day, January 15, 1929. A Baptist minister, like his father and grandfather, he pastored Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, and Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, before forming the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Reverend King wrote: "I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers.... I stand in the middle of two opposing forces... One is a force of complacency....the other force is one of bitterness and hatred...expressed in...Elijah Muhammad's Muslim movement.... I have tried to stand between these two forces...for there is the more excellent way of love."
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just now ... as i posted this post. i was listening to the speech of m.l.k. jr. on 'driving miss daisy' and the comment he made was that "we will have to pay not only for the sins of apathy, but also for the sins of the children of light." (that was a paraphrase)
there has never been a truer comment. there are those that say we have to save the world (which is certainly true), but we also have to save our own family. ever heard about someone complaining about a speck in someone else's eye when we have a plank in ours? these may be ramblings of a weird little man (speaking of myself, not m.l.k. jr.), but there is truth in all of this. (i hope this makes sense)
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