“We shall overcome because Carlisle is right. ‘No lie can live forever.’ We shall overcome because William Cullen Bryant is right. ‘Truth crushed to earth will rise again.’ We shall overcome because James Russell Lowell is right. ‘Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.’“ MLK - ThreadSky

About ThreadSky

hakeemjefferson.bsky.social • 34 days ago

“We shall overcome because Carlisle is right. ‘No lie can live forever.’ We shall overcome because William Cullen Bryant is right. ‘Truth crushed to earth will rise again.’ We shall overcome because James Russell Lowell is right. ‘Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.’“

MLK

Comments

hakeemjefferson.bsky.social•34 days ago

“Yet that scaffold sways the future. We shall overcome because the Bible is right. ‘You shall reap what you sow.’ With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.”

MLK 1968 but also MLK if he were giving words of wisdom on this dark day for American democracy

hakeemjefferson.bsky.social•34 days ago

This is from King’s “The Other America” speech, which he gave at Grosse Pointe High School in 1968 and at Stanford—where I am on the faculty—in 1967.

https://digitaleducation.stanford.edu/news/martin-luther-king-jr-gave-speech-stanford-we-must-not-forget

hakeemjefferson.bsky.social•34 days ago

Inspired by King’s speech, I convened a conference while a PhD student at the University of Michigan called “The Other America.”

You can watch lectures and panel discussions from that event here focused on racial disparities in wealth, policing, etc: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAvEYYDf9x8VRKfvgyuNn3t4XMEdoYBfD&si=e8jolEgdIO3jlc3Z

hakeemjefferson.bsky.social•34 days ago

Perhaps on this King Day, which more clearly than most reminds us how much work remains, we can recommit ourselves to the long and often frustrating fight for justice that so many have waged before us.

samthorpe.bsky.social•34 days ago

Thank you for this, Hakeem. Wrote something about a different part of that speech today. We need hope, and we need to use our time well: to teach, organize, and fight for a multiracial working-class movement (for the long haul, not just four years). Grateful to have folks like you leading the way.

hakeemjefferson.bsky.social•34 days ago

A great highlight from the speech!

Posting Rules

Be respectful to others
No spam or self-promotion
Stay on topic
Follow Bluesky's terms of service

Comments

Posting Rules

Reply