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“The great enemy of justice are those moderates who feign outrage at societal injustice, but whose outrage conveniently disappears when real change threatens their status. These moderates are more comfortable leaving unchallenged the assumed moral authority of certain institutions, traditions and practices that are the purveyors of injustice rather than confronting their own role in maintaining these institutions. The hard truth is that the comfort of the status quo is always preferable to pursuing the demands of justice.”

—MLKjr

In observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, observed on the third Monday of every January in honor of his birth date (his actual birthdate is January 15), we’re sharing this photograph taken at a 1967 rally in support of the Freedom Budget for All Americans.

The Budget was an economic proposal created and championed by civil rights and labor movement organizer A. Philip Randolph (1889-1979), civil rights and gay rights organizer Bayard Rustin (1912-1987), Southern Christian Leadership Conference president Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968), economists Leon H. Keyserling (1908-1987) and John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006), pediatrician and national chairman of the Committee for Sane Nuclear Policy Dr. Benjamin Spock (1903-1998), as well as other allies from the labor movement, prominent economists, and notable figures from the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

The proposal was released in 1966, and aimed to marshal the resources of the federal government with the goal of achieving greater racial justice and harmony by ending poverty nationwide within ten years. Its agenda included a job guarantee for any person ready and willing to work, a guaranteed income for those unable to work, mandates for a living wage that would provide economic stability for the working poor, housing programs to address the growth of residential inequality and slums, programs for accessible and affordable medical care and education, and environmentally conscious planning to address environmental justice and sustainable growth.

Many of these policy proposals would later be adapted and adopted by King in 1968 as cornerstones of his Poor People's Campaign and his Poor People's March on Washington, an economic justice campaign organized by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference under Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and carried out under the leadership of activist Ralph Abernathy (1926-1990) following King’s assassination in April of 1968.

Martin Luther King, Jr.'s daughter:

Be A King :: @BerniceKing

Alex Pretti was a Minneapolis ICU nurse who spent his days caring for and saving others. Today, he was shot and killed by a Border Patrol Agent. Alex’s life was extinguished by state violence. We must tell the truth about what is happening.

My father warned us, “When evil men plot, good men must plan. When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind.”

What we are witnessing now (masked raids, people taken without due process, vigilante, Gestapo, and slave patrol-like tactics normalized under the color of law) is a moral crisis.

Nonviolence demands more than outrage; it demands action.

Congress must dismantle ICE; enact just, humane immigration policies; and ensure implementation of the policies by people who honor the humanity of Black and Brown immigrants, respect those raising their voices in support of immigrants, and seek the safety of community.

The blood of those who are being kidnapped and unjustly killed by agents with impunity is not only on the hands of those who pull the trigger, but on every lawmaker and every court that has the power to intervene and chooses silence.

Creating the Beloved Community requires truth, accountability, and the courage to act before more lives are lost.

Based on the true story of a Black woman in the United States of America freed from enslavement to whites in 1963 two years before Malcolm X was murdered five years before MLK jr was murdered. DO you know the USA? https://aalbc.com/tc/events/event/427-alice-2022-starring-keke-palmer-common/

“Let us march on ballot boxes.” — Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, in Kingstree, SC on May 1966

Happy heavenly birthday to American trailblazer and civil rights icon Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. We honor Dr. King’s fight for justice, service to his communities, and dedication to making this country a better place for ALL.

Everybody knows about MLK JR and other men in the civil rights movement but I bet you've barely heard of women.