Thank you to robin andrea for bringing us all back to the events of 1967-1968, as we experience the events of 2018 and see what hasn't changed and what has changed.
Remembering August 28, 1963:
In the past 24 hours, I was struck by the thought that a person who practices nonviolence could not with good conscience be President of the United States, given the store of nuclear weapons that our military is prepared to use at any moment. The President of the United States must accept the title of Commander in Chief of the Military. A sobering awakening.
Nonviolent persons continue to serve in the United States, many of those persons serving in obscurity as well as in the public eye. Martin Luther King, Jr., spoke out strongly against war but not in judgment of soldiers or anyone else as fellow flawed human beings. It's time for me to read Strength to Love again. No easy answers from Martin Luther King, Jr. No demand that everyone follow him on his chosen road as a Christian doing his best to practice nonviolence. He was not self-righteous. He was a Christian in the truest sense of the word.
Remembering August 28, 1963:
In the past 24 hours, I was struck by the thought that a person who practices nonviolence could not with good conscience be President of the United States, given the store of nuclear weapons that our military is prepared to use at any moment. The President of the United States must accept the title of Commander in Chief of the Military. A sobering awakening.
Nonviolent persons continue to serve in the United States, many of those persons serving in obscurity as well as in the public eye. Martin Luther King, Jr., spoke out strongly against war but not in judgment of soldiers or anyone else as fellow flawed human beings. It's time for me to read Strength to Love again. No easy answers from Martin Luther King, Jr. No demand that everyone follow him on his chosen road as a Christian doing his best to practice nonviolence. He was not self-righteous. He was a Christian in the truest sense of the word.
