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  1. Welcome to Black Joy & Resilience, an #NHPRC funded adventure in creating a new descriptive vocabulary in #BlackJoy. #MLK at Chicken Bone Beach, Atlantic City, NJ, c. 1950’s. Read more at pacscl.org/pacscl-releases-bla

  2. @nm thanks for sharing. i skimmed your text:

    > A philosophy against suffering cannot [...] build liberation through cruelty or peace through domination. If it does, then whatever purity it once had is gone.

    without speaking about the specific incident, that made you write this post, i think there is a problem with this purity culture of #nonviolence. internally or externally, it pushes everyone to condemn the kirk shooter, to condemn hamas, and – as #MargaretKilljoy did repeatedly on her #podcast – to condemn animal liberation protesters. i'll link to that last one (as an example of what i dislike, even though it's by self-described "vegan" "anarchist" )

    but — !
    #racism is #politicalviolence.
    #zionism is #politicalviolence.
    #speciecism is #politicalviolence.
    and all of these oppressive ideologies have killed and are killing disproportionately many
    more people.

    if we condemn these acts of so-called #politicalviolence towards oppressors and demand "peace", let's be careful that we're not asking for that #negativepeace, which #MLK describes all to clearly in his #LetterFromBirminghamJail.

    🎧 #CoolPeopleWhoDidCoolStuff: #SHAC and Modern Protest Tactics omny.fm/shows/cool-people-who- omny.fm/shows/cool-people-who-

  3. RE: kolektiva.social/@susurros/116

    We have a formal, collective obligation under international law to intervene to prevent the crime of #genocide

    When our societies consistently & repeatedly FAIL TO MEET that formal obligation (instead, in fact, serving enthusiastically as #GenocidesBodyguards), I would have to acknowledge some legitimacy to an argument that individuals who recognize that failure inherit an obligation to act to do so themselves.

    When that action escalates to violence against persons who are noncombatants (a.k.a., terrorism) it is rightly viewed to have crossed a line to which extra criminal penalties should attach--although the individuals may be happy TO ACCEPT those penalties owing to the moral weight attached to their obligation.

    But in cases like this, where that action escalates solely to violence AGAINST PROPERTY, our American tradition of protest has typically balanced the need for the law to recognize that a crime has occurred WITH some weight given, in mitigation, to a credible argument that the violence was committed to strike a blow against injustice, when mere speech has long gone unheard by the oppressor (e.g., rioting during the Civil Rights movement, as recognized by #MLK in his speech, "The Other America").

    I would suggest that this is the standard that justice demands be applied here--and emphatically NOT the one that INCREASES penalties in crimes against persons.

  4. Not a quote for inspiration. A standard to meet. Martin Luther King Jr. named the truth, demanded justice and forced a nation and each one of us to answer. The question is whether we will. #MLK #MartinLutherKingJr #Justice #HumanRights #CivilRights #MoralCourage #FreedomIsntFree

  5. Not a quote for inspiration. A standard to meet. Martin Luther King Jr. named the truth, demanded justice and forced a nation and each one of us to answer. The question is whether we will. #MLK #MartinLutherKingJr #Justice #HumanRights #CivilRights #MoralCourage #FreedomIsntFree

  6. MLK assassinated on this day in 1968.
“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
    #MLK #MartinLutherKingJr

  7. #OnThisDay

    APRIL 4, 1968: MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. ASSASSINATED

    Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated while in Memphis to support the striking sanitation workers.

    zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ma

    #MLK #Assassination #CivilRights #USPol

  8. #OnThisDay

    APRIL 4, 1967: MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. DELIVERS “BEYOND VIETNAM” SPEECH

    Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his speech in opposition to the Vietnam War, calling for a “revolution of values.”

    zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ma

    #MLK #USPol

  9. #CivilRights activists led by Martin Luther King Jr. successfully completed their 4-day 50-mile march from Selma to the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama OTD in 1965 cromwell-intl.com/travel/usa/m #travel #MLK

  10. #CommunityCare #MLK
    I like to share this quote from Dr. King from the 10th Winter Walk in Boston to support our unhoused neighbors and the nonprofits doing the daily work.

    A reminder that you don’t need wealth or a title to live this out — we can support one another in simple, meaningful ways.

    #quotes #Boston #compassion #wisdom #love #unity #homelessness

  11. #CommunityLove #EndHomelessness

    👟A one‑minute look at today’s Winter Walk in Boston. An amazing morning of coming together to support our unhoused neighbors and the nonprofits doing the daily work.

    🙏🏽 Dr. King said, “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’”

    Today, thousands of footsteps answered.

    #WinterWalk2026 #Boston #MLK #quotes #volunteers #humanity #WinterWalk #Unity #Housing

  12. #CommunityLove #EndHomelessness

    👟A one‑minute look at today’s Winter Walk in Boston. An amazing morning of coming together to support our unhoused neighbors and the nonprofits doing the daily work.

    🙏🏽 Dr. King said, “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’”

    Today, thousands of footsteps answered.

    #WinterWalk2026 #Boston #MLK #quotes #volunteers #humanity #WinterWalk #Unity #Housing

  13. #CommunityLove #EndHomelessness

    👟A one‑minute look at today’s Winter Walk in Boston. An amazing morning of coming together to support our unhoused neighbors and the nonprofits doing the daily work.

    🙏🏽 Dr. King said, “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’”

    Today, thousands of footsteps answered.

    #WinterWalk2026 #Boston #MLK #quotes #volunteers #humanity #WinterWalk #Unity #Housing

  14. 👟A one‑minute look at today’s Winter Walk in Boston. An amazing morning of coming together to support our unhoused neighbors and the nonprofits doing the daily work.

    🙏🏽 Dr. King said, “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’”

    Today, thousands of footsteps answered.

  15. #CommunityLove #EndHomelessness

    👟A one‑minute look at today’s Winter Walk in Boston. An amazing morning of coming together to support our unhoused neighbors and the nonprofits doing the daily work.

    🙏🏽 Dr. King said, “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’”

    Today, thousands of footsteps answered.

    #WinterWalk2026 #Boston #MLK #quotes #volunteers #humanity #WinterWalk #Unity #Housing

  16. #BelovedCommunity

    Few words before today’s Winter Walk to end homelessness in Boston — grounded by Coretta Scott King’s words, The Embrace, and Freedom Plaza.

    Beloved community starts with us.

    #Boston #MLK #quotes #Community

  17. #BelovedCommunity

    Few words before today’s Winter Walk to end homelessness in Boston — grounded by Coretta Scott King’s words, The Embrace, and Freedom Plaza.

    Beloved community starts with us.

    #Boston #MLK #quotes #Community

  18. #BelovedCommunity

    Few words before today’s Winter Walk to end homelessness in Boston — grounded by Coretta Scott King’s words, The Embrace, and Freedom Plaza.

    Beloved community starts with us.

    #Boston #MLK #quotes #Community

  19. Few words before today’s Winter Walk to end homelessness in Boston — grounded by Coretta Scott King’s words, The Embrace, and Freedom Plaza.

    Beloved community starts with us.

  20. #BelovedCommunity

    Few words before today’s Winter Walk to end homelessness in Boston — grounded by Coretta Scott King’s words, The Embrace, and Freedom Plaza.

    Beloved community starts with us.

    #Boston #MLK #quotes #Community

  21. Like seriously, white liberals are significantly worse than loud overt racist.

    A racist tweeting their view online from the other side of the country, city or state nine times out of ten materially affects ZERO brown people but you'll find endless allies against that hate.

    But a white "liberal" calling the cops on the nearest black person regularly is a direct attempt to weaponize state violence and allies will be silent if they exist at all.

    aaihs.org/martin-luther-king-j

    #liberals #mlk #racism

  22. @madameoconnel86

    people cite #Gandhi as nonviolence that worked

    it's not true

    same with #MLK

    MLK would not exist without #MalcolmX

    and Gandhi would not exist without Bose:

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subhas_C

    that is, the British didn't want to fight, they were exhausted from #WWII. and so the colonizers could be persuaded to be "magnanimous" and accept Gandhi's terms, *only* because the threat of violence existed in the wings

    the pop-culture understanding of #nonviolence is a lie

    Gandhi knew this:

  23. @mindingmyblackownbiz, Black Royalty, wrote:

    Dr. King was 39 when he was assassinated. His autopsy revealed he had the heart of a 60-year-old.

    Let that sink in.

    Racism isn’t just a social

    (1/10)

    #blackpeople #health #racism #antiblack #mlk #jackierobinson #blacksports #blackmastodon

  24. Dr King represents the perpetual struggle for Black freedom. We will never back down or be afraid. We are marching forward to victory. #MlK #BlackLiberation