Love > Hate
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. believed love over all, so why can't we?
Dr. Martin Luther King jr. the icon went through an immense amount of racism while keeping a nonviolent mind. Yes, we all know, but it is how he managed to push through and be an activist. To have love—that is what many forget to calculate; how Dr. King felt and expressed his passion in helping those around him and even the ones abroad who are just as oppressed as he.
From the video, King in the Wilderness, by HBO, you learn just how he felt through his finest hours of civil rights, poverty, and anti-war acts. King was a co-pastor with his father Martin Luther King Sr. in the church of Ebenezer Baptist Church. His father was a big impact on the community, which may have influenced Martin from a young age. It is from there where you see his passion of helping others. King was smart, but more than that, and though he finished high school at 15 with college following and ending that at 19, he wasn’t done with learning and teaching. He decided to teach others across the world how he felt and how we must change our ways.
Martin Luther King started the civil rights movement in 1955, but that was just the beginning of a crucial act that helped form the world we have now and that will continue to shape the future just as we know it. He always said that sometimes you only have half a loaf and you have to fight for the rest. This could be associated with many things, but the metaphor is most likely associated with freedom. This is because we are all born with a little or some justice; however, none of us have all freedom and some might argue that not everyone deserves all of the freedom. Regardless, when you have some freedom, you must fight for it because, if you don’t, how will it ever change? How will you ever get more of the loaf of freedom that you so deeply deserve?
Strong minds break strong chains.
King knew taught that we all can and need to break the strong, old chain. That it could not keep going and needed to know. This strong chain is simply everything that King faced. Whether that be war or poverty, and even segregation and racism. When you listened to King, you knew that his strong mind could very well contribute to it, but could he by himself could have stopped it? No, but him along with his peers, without doubt, loosened it.
The time is always right to do what is right.
Dr. King had been wiretapped, harassed, arrested almost 40 times, but he never gave up. He always believed that there was still time to do right and in this teaching, people to do what is right. Even if his own people disliked him for his peaceful acts. King wanted to find common ground with all of the poor. One of his associates, Marian Edelman, decided to actively show the government officials how bad it had gotten in the community instead of only speaking on it. It was their creative acts to show people the real problems that the nation might have turned on because they didn't believe. Martin wanted the world to be a better place. Martin had said that it doesn’t matter how long you live, but how important you live. Martin died 50 years ago on April 4th, 1968, and he would be 89. His words and acts inspire many today, and without him, where would we be? Stuck in the past, because he is the one who told us to keep moving.
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