By Jasmine RuKim
This is me, 90% of the time. The other 10% is often filled with performance anxiety and unrealistic standards of perfection.
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Theologian James Cone and Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Taylor Branch join Bill to discuss Dr. Martin Luther King’s vision of economic justice in addition to racial equality, and why so little has changed for America’s most oppressed.
Risks of Faith offers for the first time the best of noted theologian James H. Cone’s essays, including several new pieces.
This groundbreaking and highly acclaimed work examines the two most influential African-American leaders of this century. While Martin Luther King, Jr., saw America as essentially a dream . . . as yet unfulfilled, Malcolm X viewed America as a realized nightmare.
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I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.
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We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.
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He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.
I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable. Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.
We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there is such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive action.
One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change. Every society has its protectors of status quo and its fraternities of the indifferent who are notorious for sleeping through revolutions.