In peace, together

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Martin Luther King Jr. never got to see himself canonized as a saint.

When he was struck by an assassin’s bullet in 1968, much of the country despised him as an anti-war troublemaker who kept fighting for civil rights even as the movement faced a growing backlash.

His emergence as a largely sanitized and unimpeachable symbol of American freedom embraced by both sides of the political spectrum would come decades later.

Source:
The radical histories of Mandela and MLK

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/nelson-mandela-history-radical



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1. Mahalo, she~ Madiba and MLK were the best kind of radicals.. those with vision and action

for a better future. Great article.. from your link..

"Make no mistake, they were radicals. They were seeking nothing less than a fundamental reordering of the societies they were born into. King and Mandela somehow found within themselves the ability to love those who hated and brutalized them. King did it through his commitment to nonviolence, Mandela through a commitment to multiracial democracy that survived nearly 30 years of imprisonment."

"As Mandela stood in the dock in 1964 being railroaded by a racist court that criminalized his opposition to government by white supremacy, he declared:"

"I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die"

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2. Kick!

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3. MLK received the Nobel Prize within months of Mandela being sent to Robben Island in 1964.