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Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. advocated the use of nonviolent civil disobedience to advance the American civil-rights movement. A recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, he was assassinated in 1968 at the age of thirty-nine.

— From February 2015
The Dog-Eared Page

excerpted from
Letter From Birmingham Jail

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

February 2015
The Dog-Eared Page

excerpted from
Beyond Vietnam

A Time To Break Silence

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.

June 2009
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