#mlk

[padawan-historian]

Text: Don’t act like everyone loved my father. He was assassinated. A 1967 poll reflected that he was one of the most hated men in America. Most hated. Many who quote him now and evoke him to deter justice today would likely hate, and may already hate, the authentic King.

[afriblaq]

“I’m tired of marching for something that should be mine at birth.” —Martin Luther King Jr.

He not preaching he's venting 😢

[democracyunderground]

[political-us]

Representative Al Green quotes MLK “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere” concerning ethnic cleansing of Gaza - promises to begin impeachment process against President Donald Trump.

[profeminist]

“Again we have deluded ourselves into believing the myth that Capitalism grew and prospered out of the Protestant ethic of hard work and sacrifice. The fact is that capitalism was built on the exploitation and suffering of black slaves and continues to thrive on the exploitation of the poor – both black and white, both here and abroad.”

—  MLK, “The three evils of society,” 1967

[feminist-space]

Be A King

@BerniceKing

"With my mother. Daddy's funeral.

He wasn't assassinated because he wanted his children to be judged "by the content of their character."

But for dismantling racism, poverty & militarism.

He wanted corrective measures to eradicate racism, not the delusion that it doesn't exist."

(Alt text included in image).

https://x.com/berniceking/status/1746661202061586854

[whatevergreen]

Millions of America's victims, foreign and domestic, turned in their graves when Shapiro came out with this

[sacramentohistorymuseum]

January 20th this year is MLK Day! Today we remember and honor the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. as a Civil Rights leader and activist. On October 16, 1967, less than 6 months before his assassination, King spoke at the campus stadium at Sacramento State College (now known today as California State University, Sacramento) on the subject of inequalities in education and economic justice for the lower class in the United States in a campaign later called the “Poor People’s Campaign of 1968.” About 6,000 people attended this speech.

For today, Jared discussed MLK’s speech in Sacramento and letterpress printed a quote from MLK in 1963. The quote is, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere... Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” This was typeset in 30 point Caslon font. This was printed with black rubber base ink using our Washington hand press, which was made in 1852.

[liberalsarecool]

#MLK

[odinsblog]

“The great enemy of justice are those moderates who feign outrage at societal injustice, but whose outrage conveniently disappears when real change threatens their status. These moderates are more comfortable leaving unchallenged the assumed moral authority of certain institutions, traditions and practices that are the purveyors of injustice rather than confronting their own role in maintaining these institutions. The hard truth is that the comfort of the status quo is always preferable to pursuing the demands of justice.”

—MLKjr

Despite what moderates (centrists, neoliberals, etc.)—who are more devoted to order than justice—might be saying, there should be no doubt that Martin Luther King, Jr. would be on the side of the student protesters who are standing up for Palestine 🇵🇸

[twixnmix]

Martin Luther King Jr. playing baseball with his children Martin Luther King III and Yolanda King in the backyard of their home in Atlanta on November 8, 1964.

Photos by Flip Schulke

[afriblaq]

Renegade Expressions - Martin Luther King Jr expressing his frustrations with amerikkka

[palatinewolfsblog]

“We need leaders not in love with money but in love with justice. 

Not in love with publicity but in love with humanity.”

- Martin Luther King

[blondebrainpowered]

Martin Luther King, Jr., arrested for “loitering,” Montgomery, Alabama, 1958

Photographer: Charles Moore

[typhlonectes]

[joeinct]

Martin Luther King Jr. with Daughter, Photo by James Karales, 1962