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Raise Your Voice - Traci Blackmon - Our Faith Our Vote

By Traci Blackmon — 2016

I raise my voice for equal rights. For equity in education. For health care for all. For marriage equality. I raise my voice because people like my grandmother, and my grandfather, and my aunts and uncles, fought for me to have the right to do so.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageThe ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

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Martin Luther King Jr.
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FindCenter Quotes ImageOur lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

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Martin Luther King Jr.
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Teaching and Learning About Martin Luther King Jr. with the New York Times

How do you celebrate and teach the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., both on the holiday that celebrates his birth, and all year long?

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The Learning Network
2020
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Martin Luther King Jr.: 50 Years Later, His Battles Live On

In his last years, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King was grappling with many issues: workers’ rights, a sprawling protest movement, persistent segregation and poverty. We inherited them all.

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The New York Times
2018
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What MLK and Malcolm X Would Do Today

A conversation with historian Peniel Joseph.

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Sean Illing
2020
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The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.

He was a husband, a father, a preacher—and the preeminent leader of a movement that continues to transform America and the world. Martin Luther King, Jr., was one of the twentieth century’s most influential men and lived one of its most extraordinary lives.

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Martin Luther King Jr., Clayborne Carson (editor)
2001
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The Measure of a Man

In August 1958 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., preached two sermons—"What is Man?" and "The Dimensions of a Complete Life"—at the first National Conference on Christian Education of the United Church of Christ at Purdue University.

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Martin Luther King Jr.
2013
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Strength to Love

"If there is one book Martin Luther King, Jr. has written that people consistently tell me has changed their lives, it is Strength to Love." So wrote Coretta Scott King. She continued: "I believe it is because this book best explains the central element of Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta Scott King (foreword)
2010
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I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches that Changed the World (Special 75th Anniversary Edition)

“His life informed us, his dreams sustain us yet.”* On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. stood in front of the Lincoln Memorial looking out over thousands of troubled Americans who had gathered in the name of civil rights and uttered his now famous words, “I have a dream . . .

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Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta Scott King (foreword), James Washington (editor)
1992
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Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?

In 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., isolated himself from the demands of the civil rights movement, rented a house in Jamaica with no telephone, and labored over his final manuscript.

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Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta Scott King (foreword), Vincent Harding (introduction)
2010
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