What Martin Luther King Jr. Would Say Today
Detroit West District M. L.King Jr., Celebration, January 8, 2005 “I will not listen to the music of your harps but let justice roll down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.” Amos 5:24 As we celebrate another birthday of one of America’s greatest prophets and freedom fighters, more than any time since his […]
Let Justice Roll Down Like Waters
Delivered on the Lord’s Day | November 7, 2004 Amos 5:16-24 Matthew 6:24 “Take away from me the noise of your songs, For I will not hear the melody of your stringed instruments. But let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.” Amos 6:23-24 “No one can serve two masters; for […]
The Color of Our Skin and the Content of our Curriculum: Towards the Beloved Community
Delivered at Derby Middle School, Birmingham, Michigan | January 21, 2003 He was one of the most important persons of the twentieth century. Perhaps no other person since Winston Churchill and Mohandas K. Gandhi, has one person had as broad an impact in shaping the conscience of a nation. The only American civilian who has […]
The Dream and The Nightmare
Delivered on the Lord’s Day | January 20, 2002 National Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday Celebration, Morehouse College Chapel, Genesis 37: 12-22 “Here comes that dreamer!” they said to each other. “Come now, let us kill him and throw him into one of these cisterns……” Ever since an assassin’s bullet slammed into the skull of […]
