In an old video, #BillCosby unravels the tangled deceptions that have damned the history of Black people in America for centuries. The psychological damage that has permeated the culture and perpetuated destruction. Education in America has taught forever that African savages were taken from darkness, ignorance, and nothingness into a world of opportunities. The truth is human beings who were creators, builders, architects of cultures, civilizations and art were stolen, tortured, raped and dropped in a foreign land were they were prevented by law from developing infrastructure for their families. Education was denied, learning the language of the foreign land was denied, marrying was denied. And it continued until there were modern day movements...less than 60 years ago. And you wonder why theres anger, hurt, psychological damage. Everything has a back story. Whats going on in this country today needs to change and change starts at home. Please, teach your children to be proud of their race and to be proud of their races accomplishments throughout millenniums. Teach your children the real African History, NOT whats taught in American History books. This is a time to use our heads and NOT VIOLENCE! Take what Dr. King has said and done. ---------------------------MLK On Nonviolence -------------------------------- Nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation. (1946) As you press on for justice, be sure to move with dignity and discipline, using only the weapon of love. Let no man pull you so low as to hate him. Always avoid violence. If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in your struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos. (1956) We believe in law and order. We are not advocating violence. We want to love our enemies. If I am stopped, our work will not stop, for what we are doing is right. - 1956, in Montgomery, Alabama Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love. (1958) A fifth point concerning nonviolent resistance is that it avoids not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. The nonviolent resister not only refuses to shoot his opponent but he also refuses to hate him. (1958) Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction ... The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation. (1963) We must combine the toughness of the serpent and the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart. (1963) We did not hesitate to call our movement an army. But it was a special army, with no supplies but its sincerity, no uniform but its determination, no arsenal except its faith, no currency but its conscience. (1963) Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love. - Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Stockholm, Sweden, 1964 Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. Indeed, it is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. - Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Stockholm, Sweden, 1964 One day we must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but that it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means. Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend. ---------------------------MLK On Justice--------------------------- Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. - Letter from Birmingham City Jail, 1963 In a real sense, all life is interrelated. All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be, and you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be. I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality ... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word. The time is always right to do what is right. ---------------------------MLK On Character--------------------------- Make a career of humanity ... and you will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country and a finer world to live in. Take the first step in faith. You dont have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. 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. One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right if the head is totally wrong. Only through the bringing together of head and heart, intelligence and goodness, shall man rise to a fulfillment of his true nature. If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures, sweep streets like Beethoven composed music, sweep streets like Leontyne Price sings before the Metropolitan Opera. Sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry. Sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will have to pause and say: Here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well. (1967) Number one in your lifes blueprint, should be a deep belief in your own dignity, your worth and your own somebodiness. Dont allow anybody to make you fell that youre nobody. Always feel that you count. Always feel that you have worth, and always feel that your life has ultimate significance. (1967) ---------------------------MLK On Service--------------------------- Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. Everybody can be great because anybody can serve. You dont have to have a college degree to serve. You dont have to make your subject and verbs agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love. I cannot reach fulfillment without thou. The self cannot be self without other selves. Self-concern without other-concern is like a tributary that has no outward flow to the ocean. ---------------------------MLK On the Future--------------------------- True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. If we do not learn to live together as friends, we will die apart as fools. I have a dream... I have a dream that one day little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers ... I have a dream today ... I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood; that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. (1963) I look forward confidently to the day when all who work for a living will be one with no thought to their separateness as Negroes, Jews, Italians or any other distinctions. This will be the day when we bring into full realization the American dream - a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream of equality of opportunity, of privilege and property widely distributed; a dream of a land where men will not take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few; a dream of a land where men will not argue that the color of a mans skin determines the content of his character; a dream of a nation where all our gifts and resources are held not for ourselves alone, but as instruments of service for the rest of humanity; the dream of a country where every man will respect the dignity and worth of the human personality. The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the dawn of civilization, when men ate each other because they had not yet learned to take food from the soil or to consume the abundant animal life around them. The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty. (1967) A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death. We shall have to do more than register and more than vote; we shall have to create leaders who embody virtues we can respect, who have moral and ethical principles we can applaud with enthusiasm. If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream. I still have a dream today that one day war will come to an end, that men will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks, that nations will no longer rise up against nations, neither will they study war any more. (1968) ---------------------------MLKs Last Words--------------------------- In support of the striking sanitation workers at Mason Temple in Memphis, Tenn., on April 3, 1968 - the day before Dr. King was assassinated. I dont know what will happen now. Weve got some difficult days ahead. But it doesnt matter with me now. Because Ive been to the mountaintop. And I dont mind. Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But Im not concerned about that now. I just want to do Gods will. And Hes allowed me to go up to the mountain. And Ive looked over. And Ive seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land. And Im happy, tonight. Im not worried about anything. Im not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.
Posted on: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 23:30:22 +0000
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