Martin Luther King’s Birthday
Jan 16th, 2006 by jimmoore
This is the only national holiday that means a lot to me. I am
old enough to remember the state of the nation before the civil rights
movements of the 1960s, and to have experienced fresh the cataclysm and
the changes that were wrought–and finally achieved.
If you believe that the nation advances more by spiritual and cultural
movements than by elections, and certainly more by either than by wars,
the movement Martin King was a part of is a prime example.
If you want to have a special experience sometime, read some of the
lesser known of Martin King’s sermons and writings. He was
concerned with comprehensive cultural change, he spoke of race, of
class, and of war and peace. He was both tactically-effective,
and consistent to his core beliefs about how people could be
together. He learned how to use good means to justify good ends.