M. l. King Jr: “I live every day with the threat of death, and I came to see...that I couldn’t function if I allowed fear to overcome me. The main thing is not how long I live but how well I have acquitted myself in the discharge of these truths that are high, noble, and good.”
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A turning point came in 1956, after receiving a vicious death threat, when he sat in his kitchen with a cup of coffee and turned himself over to God. “Almost out of nowhere I heard a voice. ‘Martin Luther...stand up for justice, stand up for truth. And lo, I will be with you...”
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Afterward, he said, “I was going ready to face anything.”
Martin Luther King Jr, killed April 4 1968, while supporting striking sanitation workers in Memphis.
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I appreciate this memorial about my father by @ggrenwald above any I have read today--for his comprehensive review of his bio & history, for his attention to themes generally overlooked about his post-Vietnam life, but particularly for deep appreciation of his human qualities.🙏
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Here's my @RollingStone article on Daniel Ellsberg, the heroic Pentagon Papers leaker who died today at 92:
"We’re Told Never to Meet Our Childhood Heroes. Knowing Daniel Ellsberg Proved That Wrong"
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