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Boards in brief: Van Buren shares codes officer
BÂ’ville Rotary hosts Pride of Workmanship Awards Dinner
B'ville: Palmer firefighter visit
BPL Friends present: New York StateÂ’s Water Thruway
BÂ’ville Volunteer Center receives donation
Seminar on ‘Living with Celiac Disease' in B'ville
Movers and shakers: BÂ’ville residents promoted
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Tyburn Academy Benefit Banquet
Hornets beat Corcoran, win AA-2 league title
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In His Own Words….Posted on 01/25/13
A nation that continues to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.” - "Beyond Vietnam" 4 April 1967
“The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the dawn of civilization, when men ate each other because they had not yet learned to take food from the soil or to consume the abundant animal life around them. The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.”
Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967.
"Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them."
Martin Luther King, Jr., speech, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, August 16, 1967.
“Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten....America owes a debt of justice which it has only begun to pay. If it loses the will to finish or slackens in its determination, history will recall its crimes and the country that would be great will lack the most indispensable element of greatness--justice.”
Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967
“The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state. It must be the guide and the critic of the state, and never its tool. If the church does not recapture its prophetic zeal, it will become an irrelevant social club without moral or spiritual authority.”
Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963.
“A good many observers have remarked that if equality could come at once the Negro would not be ready for it. I submit that the white American is even more unprepared.”
Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967.
“Being a Negro in America means trying to smile when you want to cry. It means trying to hold on to physical life amid psychological death. It means the pain of watching your children grow up with clouds of inferiority in their mental skies. It means having your legs cut off, and then being condemned for being a cripple. It means seeing your mother and father spiritually murdered by the slings and arrows of daily exploitation, and then being hated for being an orphan.”
Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967.