This this this #MLKDay https://t.co/ZVLfLyfSh7
— Christian Ledan (@angelindiskies) January 15, 2018
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The Great March to #Freedom - Detroit 6/23/63 by Martin Luther King, Jr. #blacklivesmatter
Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war. -Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“Our journey is not complete until our Gay Brothers and Sisters are treated like anyone else under the law. For if we are truly created equal then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well.”
Bayard Rustin, Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Gay Strategist, Deserves Better | The New Civil Rights Movement →
In 1956, Bayard Rustin was hidden in the trunk of a car and snuck out of Montgomery during the Montgomery Bus Boycott because it was feared that having an openly-gay man as an advisor would discredit the efforts of Dr. Martin Luther King and the other leaders of the African-American Civil Rights Movement.
In 1983, Congressman Walter Fauntroy, one the organizers of a Washington March marking the 20th anniversary of the iconic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, (where Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his historic “I Have a Dream” speech,) attempted to prevent representatives from gay and lesbian rights groups from speaking, thereby insulting the memory of the openly-gay Bayard Rustin, the architect of the original 1963 civil rights march…
It’s time we bring Bayard’s legacy out of the closet and into the national spotlight. READ MORE
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
“An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.”
“Hatred paralyses life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.”