Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream was a manifestation of hope that humanity might one day get out of its own way by finding the courage to realize that love and nonviolence are not indicators of weakness but gifts of significant strength.
AberjhaniStichwörter: strength love humanity dreams courage faith hope spirituality leadership civil-rights-movement nonviolence american-history martin-luther-king-jr conflict-resolution african-americans human-rights-day police-reform police-shootings agape-love national-history-day famous-authors black-history-month nonviolent-conflict-resolution compassion-heals-lives great-leaders famous-speeches i-have-a-dream-speech martin-luther-king-day mlk-day mlkdream50 spiritual-visions voting-rights-act-of-1965
The United States inherited a seemingly inexhaustible fortune in natural resources, yet it has responded to its environment with a dismaying mixture of materialism and inertia. The nation was virtually founded upon a ubiquitous desire for access to land and its contents. Its amazing growth during the nineteenth century was based directly upon the exploitation—immediate, unplanned, full use of soils, minerals, forests, and rivers. Equitable access to these natural bounties rather than constitutional guarantees would be the practical basis for democracy. Subsequently, political institutions were shaped in such a way that they could facilitate the disposition of the public domain. But that expectation, as later generations ruefully observed, did not materialize. The combination of economics and government had instead produced a handful of owners and policy makers who were beyond the control of the ballot box.
Elmo RichardsonStichwörter: american-history natural-resources environmental-history
Far from being marginalized, as is presently the case, nineteenth-century freethought was a social movement at the core of our national life.
Fred WhiteheadStichwörter: history atheism secularism freethought american-history 19th-century 19th-century-america social-movement
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