MARTIN LUTHER KING's LETTER: at once all about God and all about America

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"My feets is tired, but my soul is at rest."
Liz Herbert

King's letter, at once all about God and all about America:

One day the South will recognize its real heroes... They will be old, oppressed, battered Negro women, symbolized in a seventy-two-year-old woman in Montgomery, Alabama, who rose up with a sense of dignity and with her people decided not to ride segregated buses, and who responded with ungrammatical profundity to one who inquired about her weariness: "My feets is tired, but my soul is at rest."

...One day the South will know that when these disinherited children of God sat down at lunch counters, they were in reality standing up for what is best in the American dream and for the most sacred values in our Judeo-Christian heritage, thereby bringing our nation back to those great wells of democracy which were dug deep by the founding fathers in their formulation of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.

Perhaps on this day, to honor Dr. King, we should each examine our own prejudices—prejudices against others because of the color of their skin, prejudices against others because of who they love. And, just perhaps, some prejudices on the left side of the aisle about what one might hear in a church on a Sunday morning. And, rather than giving into the temptation of returning a vengeful monologue when one has been launched at us, we must steadfastly seek the dialogue... the same dialogue Dr. King managed to maintain with every syllable he penned from the Birmingham Jail.

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