Tag: Martin Luther King Jr.

It remains an open question, however, when their silent acceptance of militarism, materialism, and the abuse of Planet Earth will end.

While Dr. King is primarily remembered as a civil rights leader, he also championed the cause of the poor and organized the Poor People’s Campaign to address issues of economic justice.

Dr. King’s spirit lives on in the new Poor People’s Campaign, and in every place radicals gather to change the world.

As the nation marks 90 years since the birth of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., we air a rediscovered speech he delivered on December 7, 1964.

"Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.”

Over the course of a week, tens of thousands of people connected the dots between racism, poverty, greed, war, nuclear weapons and environmental destruction, and called for justice and a new culture of nonviolence.

Reverend King posed the fundamental choice of our time: nonviolence or nonexistence. What is your choice?

On the evening of April 4, 1968, an hour or so after Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated, I was in a jail cell in Concord, Mass., writing a freshman paper about King, Gandhi and Thoreau.

Dr. King’s spirit lives on in the new Poor People’s Campaign, and in every place radicals gather to change the world.

Now, 50 years later, a coalition has formed anew to organize poor people in the U.S. into what King called "a new and unsettling force" to fight poverty and forge meaningful change.