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Who is heir to Dr. King's "Letter from a Birmingham jail"?
The Thanks Project ^ | 04/11/14 | Steve Berman

Posted on 04/11/2014 10:44:40 AM PDT by lifeofgrace

Fifty-one years ago today, Dr. Martin Luther King penned one of the most famous essays of the civil rights movement from a cell in the Birmingham city jail. It was in the form of a letter written to a group of clergymen who expressed their distaste for the kind of "direct action" in which King engaged.

Jail has two effects on the human mind and spirit. While confinement seeks to crush the spirit, one who is jailed for their sacred cause typically experiences a greater focus and clarity, and is given the ample time in which to express and fortify their cause.

Placing this event into contemporary focus, the question arises as to who is the proper heir to Dr. King's essay and spirit?

As a multiple-choice question: (a) Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and their followers, (b) the LGBT agenda, or (c) the pro-life movement. There is only one answer: the pro-life movement is the heir, without question.

(Excerpt) Read more at thanks-project.blogspot.com ...


TOPICS: History; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: abortion; blogpimp; martinlutherking; mlkfraud; racerelations

1 posted on 04/11/2014 10:44:40 AM PDT by lifeofgrace
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To: lifeofgrace

What stopped you from posting your full content?


2 posted on 04/11/2014 10:49:13 AM PDT by humblegunner
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To: lifeofgrace

Was that one of the things the african-American, Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. plagiarized?


3 posted on 04/11/2014 11:15:24 AM PDT by Doctor 2Brains
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To: Doctor 2Brains

wasn’t his communist handler named Stanley Levinson? I suppose he wrote this as well. Mr. Levinson had a dream.


4 posted on 04/11/2014 12:20:40 PM PDT by equalator
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To: lifeofgrace

Anyone who believes in a G-dless, secular concept of “objective” morality or justice.


5 posted on 04/11/2014 2:41:42 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (The Left: speaking power to truth since Shevirat HaKelim.)
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