Wednesday 13 March 2013

Inspiration: Dare To Act

Inspiration: Dare To Act
People who grow up in the United States today may have trouble believing how different things were quarter centuries ago. His relentless effort started a revolution and ensured hard-won victories. His perpetual pursuit of a colour-blind justice system was instrumental in the civil right of 1964.
The youngest person to who the Nobel Prize. He was helping prepare a mercy match on the nation's capital in 1968 to raise awareness of the extent and ravages of poverty when he was murdered.

He was a son of a Baptist preacher. He grew up in the southern part of the united states of America during the 1930s and 40s. Like every black living in the south he was well acquainted with the varieties and manifestations of racism.
Amongst the images etched indelibly upon his mind was the incident that occurred at age 6 when the parents of a white friend angrily interrupted their play time and demanded that he never again played with their son.

When he was 11 a white woman without provocation hit him and called him a nigger. Of course, these and many other incidents occurred within the context of injustice.
Prior to the mid-sixties blacks were not allowed to eat in white restaurants, to use public rest rooms, or to side public transport.

The young man watched, listened, and absorbed the pain; and he prepared to devote his life to fight against social injustice, poverty and racial discrimination.

He was an intelligent man. He enrolled in college at age 15 without completing high school. He was valedictorian of his seminary class and earned a Ph.D. in Theology at Boston University. He then entered the school of hard-knocks, pastoring a church in Montgomery, Alabama. Using his pulpit as his platform, he led the black citizenry in non-violent resistance, a tactic he had learned by studying Mahatma Gandhi, the Famed Indian leader.
He led thousands of blacks in boycotts, sit-ins, matches and freedom fights and spearheaded political lobbying efforts. To most of the blacks he became a HERO.

He was powerful orator. He was not afraid to use the pulpit for inciting his audience to action. He used the pulpit for more than recruiting, though his sermons were designed to restore the sense of dignity, self-respect and hope that blacks had lost long ago.

His message was unusually challenging blacks to confront the white minority for its mistreatment of blacks.
Some parts of the world are still ridden with the cancer of racism today but the enduring legacy is that Martin Luther King, Jr helped strip segregation and racial prejudice of its normal legitimacy.

In a world where most of us are concentrating on material things, will you be courageous enough to fight for a cause? will you be courageous enough to be an evangelist of that your dream? If you were Martin Luther King, Jr. beyond daring to dream, will you put it into action? The key is in your hands. Use it.
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