Martin Luther King day

Dear campus community,. While the spring semester begins next week and although many campus offices are closed today, I want to take a moment to reflect on ...

The wisdom in the words of Dr. He strove both to enact meaningful change through legislative and political channels and to make impassioned, personal pleas to individuals to accept and act on the ideas of freedom, tolerance and non-violence. King was one of the foremost leaders for social and racial justice in the 20th century.

Over the weekend, Biden said his message on King's birthday is "we choose democracy over autocracy."

He helped drive passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965. And I’m remembering our job is to redeem the soul of America.” … But it’s not.” Americans, he said, ” have to choose a community over chaos. … These are the vital questions of our time and the reason why I’m here as your president. “He said, ‘Where do we go from here?’” Biden said from the pulpit. He said democracies can backslide, noting the collapse of the institutional structures of democracy in places such as Brazil.

Ebenezer Baptist ChurchAtlanta, Georgia 11:45 A.M. ESTTHE PRESIDENT: I've spoken before parliaments, kings, queens, leaders of the.

(Applause.) I don’t believe He brought me this far to leave me.” (Applause.) He did not bring me this far to leave me. (Applause.) And as I told folks at the time: She’s smarter than you are. I call that the “Irish of it.” (Laughter.) We’re never on top, always stepped on. (Applause.) And I watch how the other graduates pick on the Morehouse men. King led, stated it clearly and boldly, and it must be repeated again, now: to redeem the soul of America. (Laughter.) Managed all my campaigns. (Applause.) She led the movement that created the King holiday and so much more. (Laughter.) Actually, I have a bad reputation for speaking too long. I — (applause) — and let’s lay one thing to rest. Folks, to the King family, I know no matter how many years pass — it doesn’t matter how many years pass — those days of remembrance are difficult. (Laughter.) Not a joke.

Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day — a day which commemorates Civil Rights activist, Baptist preacher and Nobel Peace Prize winner Martin Luther King Jr.

Today is Martin Luther King Jr. The six non-violent principles he espoused such as “Nonviolence Holds That Unearned, Voluntary Suffering for a Just Cause Can Educate and Transform People and Societies” and “Nonviolence Chooses Love Instead of Hate” were designed to combat three great evils: racism, poverty and militarism. King’s vision of a “Beloved Community,” per While many consider this holiday a day-off of work, it is designed to be a “day-on” of service. Day to become a federal holiday. King was known for his activism against segregation and his advocacy for civil rights.

Are we a people who will choose democracy over autocracy?" asked Biden, the first sitting president to give a sermon at the Ebenezer Baptist Church.

Day weekend, [Joe Biden](https://www.rollingstone.com/t/joe-biden/) traveled to the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, where the president shared a stage with pastor and [Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock](https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/georgia-senate-runoff-results-raphael-warnock-defeats-herschel-walker-1234642730/). On Sunday, former president Trump spent part of his day blasting out mass-emails with links to conservative-media articles, largely concerning the The president’s Atlanta speech comes just over a week after he marked the two-year anniversary of the deadly Jan. Biden is now the first sitting American president to give a Sunday sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church. [Martin Luther King Jr](https://www.rollingstone.com/t/martin-luther-king-jr/). “Are we a people who will choose democracy over autocracy?

Many historical recollections of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s life are told through a color-blind lens and omit the intense campaign that the FBI waged ...

Aside from the misattributed quotes, patronizing memes, and poor rationale for color-blind ideologies made in his name, some social scientists argue that the real misfortune of King’s legacy is that many of the White people who so frequently invoke his legacy in the name of peace, do so with a fundamental perversion of his message. By 1967, it was apparent that King continued to toil with the idea of the appropriateness of violent protests. Toward the end of that same year, King began to grapple with the frustration, pain, and anger that many younger Black civil rights leaders were feeling. Still, by the time he spoke in the fall of 1967, he recognized that it would no longer be practical to tell Black Americans to only protest peacefully, kindly, and respectfully. [speech at the American Psychology Association’s](https://www.apa.org/monitor/2017/09/answering-mlk) annual convention in Washington, DC, he now described violence almost as a necessary act — a position in direct contrast to his discussion of riots just a year earlier. [March on Washington](https://www.npr.org/2010/08/28/129470920/a-peoples-history-of-the-march-on-washington) in 1963 until his [assassination](https://www.npr.org/2018/04/04/598826351/despite-swirl-of-conspiracy-theories-investigators-say-the-mlk-case-is-closed) in 1968, the FBI methodically engaged in a relentless and concentrated campaign to discredit Dr. The FBI would receive intel that King was planning to meet in various hotels for business and personal meetings and enter the hotel before King arrived. Meanwhile, urban areas composed of mostly Black residents remained marginalized by the institutions that promised to uplift and protect them. King promoted patience and love and focused largely on charging people, he also understood the power of legislative changes to promote equity for Blacks and supported abolitionist movements. King has been depicted as a non-violent pastor and civil rights leader who only promoted patience and compassion for the perpetrators of racial prejudice and White supremacist culture as a solution to eradicate racial inequality. Although Withers did not start as an informant, after Withers became known for his pictures documenting the civil rights movement, the FBI quickly propositioned him to be an informant against King. The FBI attempted to destroy Dr.