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Rev. MLK, Jr. "I have a dream ... where little black boys & black girls ... join hands with little white boys & white girls and walk together as sisters & brothers"
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"I have a dream ... where little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls and walk together as sisters and brothers,"
stated
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,
AUGUST 28, 1963, at the Civil Rights March in Washington, D.C.
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Martin Luther King, Jr.,
attended
Booker T. Washington High School
in Atlanta, Georgia, 1942-1944.
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Booker T. Washington
founded the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. He wrote in
Up From Slavery
(1901):
"I learned this lesson from General Samuel Chapman Armstrong, and resolved that
I would permit no man, no matter what his color might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
With God's help, I believe that I have completely rid myself of any ill feeling toward the Southern white man for any wrong that he may have inflicted upon my race.
I am made to feel just as happy now when I am rendering service to Southern white men as when the service is rendered to a member of my own race.
I pity from the bottom of my heart
any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the
habit of holding race prejudice."
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Booker T. Washington
stated:
"In the sight of God there is no color line,
and we want to cultivate a spirit that will make us forget that there is such a line anyway."
"I have always had the greatest respect for the work of the
Salvation Army
especially because I have noted that it
draws no color line in religion."
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Booker T. Washington
wrote:
"The man is unwise who does not
cultivate
in every manly way the
friendship
and
goodwill
of his next-door
neighbor,
whether he be
black or white."
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Booker T. Washington
wrote in
Up From Slavery
(1901):
"Great men cultivate
love
... Only
little men
cherish a
spirit of hatred."
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George Washington Carver
was invited by
Booker T. Washing
to teach at Tuskegee.
Carve
r wrote to Robert Johnson, March 24, 1925:
"Thank God I love humanity;
complexion doesn't interest me one single bit."
George W. Carver
wrote to YMCA official Jack Boyd in Denver, March 1, 1927:
"Keep your hand in that of the Master, walk daily by His side, so that you may lead others into the realms of true happiness, where a
religion of hate,
(which poisons both body and soul) will be unknown, having in its place the
'Golden Rule' way,
which is the
'Jesus Way'
of life, will reign supreme."
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After the Civil War, freed slaves began to advance in society, but
Democrat vigilante groups
in the South tried to keep them down, committing over
4,000 lynching.
The
Tuskegee Institute
recorded that from 1882-1968,
3,446 blacks
and
1,297 whites
were
lynched
-the
whites
being
"radical" Republicans
who were caught
registering freed blacks to vote.
Booker T. Washingto
n walked the fine line between:
- racist Southern Democrats who committed violence if blacks tried to rise in social position;
and
- Northern racial activists who criticized black leaders who were not demanding reparations.
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Such was
W.E.B. Dubois,
who visited Mao Zedung and later joined the Communist Party.
Booker T. Washington
warned in
My Larger Education-Being Chapters from My Experience
(1911, ch. V: The Intellectuals and the Boston Mob, p. 118):
"There is another class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public.
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... Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs -- partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays.
Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs ...
There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who
do not want the patient to get well,
because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public."
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Booker T. Washington
stated:
"A whining crying race may be pitied but seldom respected."
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Booker T. Washington's
approach to blacks being fully accepted into American life was to follow the path
immigrants
took.
German, Irish, Jewish, Polish, Italian, and others immigrated at the bottom of the social ladder, often being met with racial discrimination.
But by hard work and the pooling of their efforts and resources, they became educated, started businesses, accumulated wealth, made contributions to society, and as a result rose in public respect.
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Booker T. Washington
stated:
"At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion itself, there must be for
our race,
as for all races,
an economic foundation,
economic prosperity, economic independence."
"Leaders have devoted themselves to politics, little knowing, it seems, that
political independence disappears without economic independence;
that economic independence is the foundation of political independence."
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Booker T. Washington
recommended efforts to "concentrate all their energies on industrial education, and
accumulation of wealth
, and the conciliation of the South," believing that "Blacks would eventually gain full participation in society by showing themselves to be responsible, reliable American citizens."
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Booker T. Washington
wrote:
"No man who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives is left without proper reward."
"I want to see my race live such high and useful lives that they will not be merely tolerated, but they shall be needed and wanted."
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
warned Congress, January 3, 1940:
"Doctrines that set group against group, faith against faith,
race against race, class against class,
fanning the fires of hatred
in men too despondent, too desperate to think for themselves, were used as
rabble-rousing slogans
on which dictators could ride to power.
And once in power they could saddle their tyrannies on whole nations."
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Community organizer
Saul Alinsky
wrote in
Rules for Radicals
(1971). After giving an acknowledgement to Lucifer in the front pages of his book,
Alinsky
wrote:
"The organizer's first job is to create the issues or problems ...
"Fan the latent hostilities of many of the people to the point of overt expression."
"The organizer must first rub raw the resentments of the people of the community ...
"An organizer must stir up dissatisfaction and discontent ...
"He must search out controversy and issues, rather than avoid them."
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Proverbs 6:19 states:
"The Lord hates ... a person who stirs up conflict in the community." (NIV)
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Agitating organizers engage in a tactic called
"psychological projection"
or "blame-shifting," where the
attacker blames the victim.
Sigmund Freud
described this in
Case Histories II
(PFL 9, p. 132), where
rude and hateful people
are the first to
accuse those they do not like
as being
rude and hateful.
Karl Marx
is attributed with the phrase "Accuse the victim of what you do" or "Accuse your opponent of what you are guilty of."
It is an effective political technique - where politicians accuse their opponents of being guilty of what they themselves are guilty of.
One party may accuse the other of not caring for the poor because they do not support a welfare state; yet statistically, the welfare state traps the poor in permanent poverty and dependency.
Self-contradictory statements are made, such as, in order to stop the intolerance
we are going to be intolerant
of you.
They hold up signs against hate, when they are actually spreading hate. They put lists on websites identifying hate groups, when they are actually the ones acting hateful.
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Jesus
taught in Matthew 5:44:
"But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully
use you, and persecute you."
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Franklin Roosevelt
stated in a Campaign Address at Brooklyn, NY, November 1, 1940:
"Those forces ... oppose Christianity because it preaches democracy ...
We are a nation of many nationalities,
many races,
many religions - bound together by ... the unity of freedom and equality.
Whoever seeks to set one nationality against another, seeks to degrade all nationalities.
Whoever seeks to set one race against another seeks to enslave all races ...
So-called
racial voting blocs
are the creation of
designing politicians
who profess to be able to deliver them on Election Day."
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FDR
stated in a radio address for a Birthday Ball for Crippled Children, January 30, 1940:
"The answer to class hatred, race hatred, religious hatred ... is the free expression of the love of our fellow men."
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FDR
prayed on United Flag Day, June 14, 1942:
"Grant us victory over the tyrants who would enslave all free men ...
We can make ... a planet ...
undivided by senseless distinctions of race."
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Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,
warned AUGUST 28, 1963:
"In the process of gaining our rightful place
we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds.
Let us not
seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by
drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline.
We must not allow
our creative protest to
degenerate into physical violence ...
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... New militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people,
for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that
their destiny is tied up with our destiny
and their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom.
...
We cannot walk alone."
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On April 16, 1963,
Rev. King
warned:
"I stand in the middle of two opposing forces in the Negro community.
One is a force of complacency ... The other force is one of
bitterness and hatred,
and it comes perilously close to advocating violence.
It is expressed in the various black nationalist groups that are springing up across the nation, the largest and best-known being Elijah Muhammad's Muslim movement.
Nourished by the Negro's frustration over the continued existence of racial discrimination, this movement is made up of people who have lost faith in America, who have absolutely repudiated Christianity, and who have concluded that the white man is an incorrigible 'devil.'"
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Rev. King
continued:
"I have tried to stand between these two forces, saying that we need emulate neither the 'do-nothingism' of the complacent nor the
hatred
of the black nationalist.
For there is the more excellent way of
love and non-violent protest.
I am grateful to God that, through the influence of the
Negro church,
the way of
nonviolence
became an integral part of our struggle ...
If our white brothers dismiss ... those of us who employ nonviolent direct action ... millions of Negroes will, out of frustration and despair, seek solace and security in black nationalist ideologies - a development that would inevitably lead to a frightening racial nightmare ..."
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Martin Luther King, Jr.,
gave hope:
"One day the South will know that when these disinherited children of God sat down at lunch counters they were in reality standing up for what is best in the American dream and for
the most sacred values in our Judeo-Christian heritage."
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Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,
who was a
Baptist Pastor
like his father and grandfather, continued his
Civil Rights March address,
AUGUST 28, 1963:
"Now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to
all of God's children ...
I have a dream
that one day ... the
glory of the Lord shall be revealed,
and
all flesh shall see it together.
This will be the day when
all of God's children
will be able to sing with new meaning,
'My country 'tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing.
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the Pilgrims' pride,
From every mountainside,
Let freedom ring.'
When we let freedom ring ... we will be able to speed up that day when
all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics,
will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual,
'Free at last!
Free at last!
Thank God Almighty,
We are free at last!'"
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Martin Luther King, Jr.'s niece,
Dr. Alveda King
, told
The Call Detroit,
November 11, 2011:
"My father,
Rev. A.D. King,
is brother to Martin ...
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... Uncle M.L., Daddy,
and their earthly father,
Daddy King
were preachers of the Gospel of Jesus Christ ...
Daddy King
rescued me from abortion in 1950. You can read the story in my book:
HOW CAN THE DREAM SURVIVE IF WE MURDER THE CHILDREN?
...
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... When my mother wanted to abort me,
Daddy King
told her:
'No. They are lying to you. She is not a lump of flesh. She is a little girl, with bright skin and bright red hair. She will be a blessing to many.'
... So you see, this little girl who is
part Irish, part African and part Native American
is standing before you today to bear witness of Acts 17:26,
that of
One Blood,
God made
all people
to live on earth in a Beloved Community, and one day, to live in Eternity with Him.
So we are
one human race,
not separate races."
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