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On the 50th Anniversary of the Death of America’s greatest 20th Century Leader: Martin Luther King



Let’s remember in this time of rising authoritarianism one of Martin Luther King’s many important statements on oppression:

“To accept passively an unjust system is to cooperate with that system; thereby the oppressed become as evil as the oppressor,”, King wrote in his essay “Three Ways of Meeting Oppression.”
We are obligated to resist as much as the oppressor is obligated to hear our protests. And so we resist..