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Thank God for the efforts of Black Lives Matter – we’ve seen an awakening in this era in a way we didn’t see in Daddy’s era in terms of people coming to grips with white privilege.

Bernice King

In addition to a stronger focus on better training for law enforcement, America urgently needs programs to provide jobs and educational opportunities in economically depressed communities.
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Addition Community Depression Job Need Program Strong Training
Love is not a weak, spineless emotion; it is a powerful moral force on the side of justice.
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Emotion Force Justice Love Moral Powerful Weakness
Like my father, I believe that nonviolence is the antidote to what he called ‘the triple evils of racism, poverty and militarism.’ These three evils were consuming our hopes for community in 1964, and, fifty years later, we remain divided because of their festering effects.
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Believe Division Effect Father Race Violence
My father provided some very important guidance in how we deal with conflict and polarization.
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Conflict Father Guidance Important Myself
In 1985, I was arrested, along with my mother and brother, Martin III, in a protest against apartheid at the South African Embassy in Washington, D.C.
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Arrest Mom Myself Politics Protest
The private sector enjoys tremendous freedom in the U.S, as it should. With freedom, however, comes responsibilities.
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Enjoyment Freedom Privacy Responsibility
My mother made countless sacrifices so that her children – and all children – could grow up in a better nation and world.
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Better Count Growth Mom Nation Sacrifice World
Trump’s election could be a blessing in disguise. This is the opportunity for America to correct itself.
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My father really set the tone for us to be a more moral nation, to take a moral high ground in everything that we do.
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Father Ground Moral Myself Nation
It is painful beyond measure to lose a loving father and grandmother to violence.
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Beyond Lose Mom Pain Violence
Environmental injustice is a tangible, intolerable example of an exhibited moral laxity and minimal concern for healthy standards by corporations and political structures based on the race, ethnicity, and class of those being impacted.
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Environment Health Impact Injustice Minimal Moral Race Standard
Among her many accomplishments, my mother is often identified as the leader of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday movement.
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When I speak, I want to ensure that there is at least one person in the audience who leaves the room transformed.
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Before she was a King, my mother was a peace advocate, a courageous leader, and an accomplished artist.
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All of us have to be committed to a life beyond our own aspirations.
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Aspiration Beyond Commitment Life Ourselves
Institutionalized racism has been with us pre-Obama, and it obviously will be with us post-Obama.
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Existence Institutional Oppression Ourselves Race

Thank God for the efforts of Black Lives Matter – we’ve seen an awakening in this era in a way we didn’t see in Daddy’s era in terms of people coming to grips with white privilege.

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Thank God for the efforts of Black Lives Matter – we’ve seen an awakening in this era in a way we didn’t see in Daddy’s era in terms of people coming to grips with white privilege.

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