http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ethicalesq/2006/01/16/martin-luther-king-jr-a-dream-plus-courage/ breathless punditry and one-breath poetry with David Giacalone Mon, 13 Oct 2008 03:46:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ethicalesq/2006/01/16/martin-luther-king-jr-a-dream-plus-courage/#comment-15392 shlep: the Self-Help Law ExPress » Blog Archive » MLK and the pro se movement Mon, 15 Jan 2007 22:58:39 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/formerlyknownas/2006/01/16/martin-luther-king-jr-a-dream#comment-15392 [...] Although it doesn’t take Dr. King’s courage (in the face of physical threats, imprisonment and hatred) to fight for the right of every American for access to justice, the pro se movement and efforts to help the self-represented are an important continuation of his battle to remove injustice from our society.  Economic inequality is a continuing vestige of racial and ethnic discrimination.  Poverty (and sometimes merely being “un-rich”) has too often, and for far too long, prevented meaningful access to our civil justice system.  [...] [...] Although it doesn’t take Dr. King’s courage (in the face of physical threats, imprisonment and hatred) to fight for the right of every American for access to justice, the pro se movement and efforts to help the self-represented are an important continuation of his battle to remove injustice from our society.  Economic inequality is a continuing vestige of racial and ethnic discrimination.  Poverty (and sometimes merely being “un-rich”) has too often, and for far too long, prevented meaningful access to our civil justice system.  [...]

]]> http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ethicalesq/2006/01/16/martin-luther-king-jr-a-dream-plus-courage/#comment-15381 David Giacalone Mon, 15 Jan 2007 19:31:33 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/formerlyknownas/2006/01/16/martin-luther-king-jr-a-dream#comment-15381 See Dr. King's Letter from a Birmingham Jail -- http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/popular_requests/frequentdocs/birmingham.pdf [at 4]. See Dr. King’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail — http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/popular_requests/frequentdocs/birmingham.pdf [at 4].

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