For several years, I worked for a government agency and we were privileged to get a day off work in January in celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. I have heard several jokes made about this holiday....and it hurt my heart so badly. I even heard some people I went to church with say something that I should have had the guts to stand up to and take a stand against....but I'm sad to say, I kept my mouth shut.
I think the older I get....and especially in light of our kids adopting from Uganda....
I'm experiencing first hand just how prejudiced....
....and ignorant....
....people can be.
I'm experiencing first hand just how prejudiced....
....and ignorant....
....people can be.
In honor....and in memory of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.....
I want to share some of his quotes with y'all!!!
This one totally spoke to me....ouch...
:'(
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.
A lie cannot live.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor;
it must be demanded by the oppressed.
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
This one I dedicate to my GRANDchildren.....
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
In HIS Most Precious Love....and with mine!!!