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xchrom

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Sat Jan 14, 2012, 05:29 PM Jan 2012

today's visionary: an illustrated guide to Dr. King's 21st century insights

http://www.nationofchange.org/today-s-visionary-illustrated-guide-dr-king-s-21st-century-insights-1326552411

Here it comes again. This hol­i­day week­end we'll see a lot of media cov­er­age of Mar­tin Luther King, Jr. But we'll hear very lit­tle about what he re­ally was - a brave and vi­sion­ary leader whose vi­sion is as rel­e­vant today as ever.

One year ago I listed ten quotes by Dr. King, and mourned the lack of a move­ment that would ad­vance his kind of vi­sion. Then came the up­ris­ing in Madi­son and the Oc­cupy move­ment, which began a long-over­due na­tional de­bate about eco­nomic, as well as racial in­equal­ity.

Once again, Dr. King's in­sights pro­vide offer in­sight and vi­sion for today's move­ment ac­tivists - and to­mor­row's.

1. "True com­pas­sion is more than fling­ing a coin to a beg­gar; it is not hap­haz­ard and su­per­fi­cial. It comes to see that an ed­i­fice which pro­duces beg­gars needs re­struc­tur­ing." Where Do We Go From Here? Au­gust 1967 speech.



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2. "We must de­velop a fed­eral pro­gram of pub­lic works, re­train­ing, and jobs for all - so that none, white or black, will have cause to feel threat­ened ... There is noth­ing ex­cept short­sight­ed­ness to pre­vent us from guar­an­tee­ing an an­nual min­i­mum and liv­able in­come for every Amer­i­can fam­ily." Where Do We Go From Here?




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today's visionary: an illustrated guide to Dr. King's 21st century insights (Original Post) xchrom Jan 2012 OP
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