25 março, 2017

Foi neste dia #308 (1965)

Fifty-two years ago from the footsteps of the Alabama state capitol in Montgomery, Martin Luther King addressed a crowd of some 25,000 who had marched from Selma AL for five days protesting against discriminatory practices that prevented voting of blacks across the South. The Voting Rights Act was signed into law in August of 1965. Two passages from that speech:

“The end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience. And that will be a day not of the white man, not of the black man. That will be the day of man as man.”

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.

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