OpEd: 'By emphasizing virtues such as understanding, love, peace, and learning, King laid out an inspiring vision for sustained collective action as the moral and necessary path toward achieving justice.'
, “The ultimate measure of a person is not where one stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where one stands in times of challenge.”
The reverend will forever be remembered for his heroic actions during the Civil Rights Movement, a legacy that helped inspire organizations such as Black Lives Matter and Color of Change. King’s "' can be viewed as the distillation of his principles: a captivating, eloquent response to those members of the clergy who questioned his motives for engaging in nonviolent protest, and a call for a collective fight for change.
By emphasizing virtues such as understanding, love, peace, and learning, King laid out an inspiring vision for sustained collective action as the moral and necessary path toward achieving justice.
From the time enslaved people were first brought to the United States in the 1600s, through the end of the Jim Crow era in the 1960s, African Americans were beaten, lynched, abused, disenfranchised, and deprived of other basic rights. A host of laws, including literacy tests and poll taxes, were passed to keep Black people from voting; today, voter suppression laws still disproportionately harm Black voters.
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