“Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quick sands of racial injustice to the...

“Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quick sands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God’s children.”
~ Martin Luther King, Jr. (excerpt from I have a Dream speech)

Information and updates on the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington http://50thanniversarymarchonwashington.com/

JOBS ~ JUSTICE ~ FREEDOM The commemoration of the 1963 March on Washington begins today August 21 and concludes on August 28 at the Lincoln Memorial, 50 years since Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. made his monumental “I Have a Dream” speech. The...

JOBS ~ JUSTICE ~ FREEDOM
The commemoration of the 1963 March on Washington begins today  August 21 and concludes on August 28 at the Lincoln Memorial, 50 years since Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. made his monumental “I Have a Dream” speech. The seven day program will include a mass march along the historic route, a “Global Freedom Festival,” an Ecumenical Worship Service, a tribute to Dr. King’s Dream, and the “Let Freedom Ring” bell ringing ceremonies in Washington, across the nation and throughout the world. #MLKDream50
Please see the official schedule of events here: http://officialmlkdream50.com/

On August 28, 2013 citizens from across this country will converge upon our nation’s capital to commemorate and celebrate the historic March On Washington which occurred 50 years ago on August 28, 1963. This site provides information and updates on...
On August 28, 2013 citizens from across this country will converge upon our nation’s capital to commemorate and celebrate the historic March On Washington which occurred 50 years ago on August 28, 1963.

This site provides information and updates on the numerous commemorative marches that are being planned throughout this country, and provides citizens an opportunity to leave their remembrances and pictures of the march that changed the world.

http://50thanniversarymarchonwashington.com/
There will be rallies this weekend. FOR hopes and prays that we all remember in these trying times to rely on the transformational power of nonviolence. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only...

There will be rallies this weekend. FOR hopes and prays that we all remember in these trying times to rely on the transformational power of nonviolence.

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

(photo from Times Square, New York City on July 14, 2013)

On this day, April 4th, in 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his seminal speech “Beyond Vietnam - a Time to Break Silence” at a meeting of Clergy and Laity Concerned. By 1967, Dr. King had become one of the country’s most prominent...

On this day, April 4th, in 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his seminal speech “Beyond Vietnam - a Time to Break Silence” at a meeting of Clergy and Laity Concerned.

By 1967, Dr. King had become one of the country’s most prominent opponents of the Vietnam War, and a staunch critic of overall U.S. foreign policy, which he deemed militaristic. In his groundbreaking “Beyond Vietnam” speech delivered at New York’s Riverside Church — a year to the day before he was murdered — King called the United States “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today.” Dr. King’s words were both precautionary and prophetic, providing both a diagnosis and a cure – “a true revolution of values” – for our society’s gravest illnesses, “the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism.”

For the complete text and audio version of Martin Luther King’s Declaration Against War: http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkatimetobreaksilence.htm

Voices FOR Peace: “The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.” ~ Jackie Robinson (The first African American major league baseball player, Robinson, and the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. received...

Voices FOR Peace:
“The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.”
~ Jackie Robinson
(The first African American major league baseball player, Robinson, and the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. received honorary doctorates from Howard University in June 1957. Both men shared a belief in pacifism in the face of intolerance.)