Our nonviolent movement is disarming police forces
Jackson, Mississippi 1965
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“/ have the audacity to believe that peoples
everywhere can have three meals a day for
their bodies, education and culture fo r their
minds, and dignity, equality and freedom
for their spirits.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
M o u n te d A la b a m a S ta ta P a tro lm a n and lo c a l d e p u ty a h e rlffa d is p e ra «
d e m o n s tra to rs in M o n tg o m e ry . An e s tim a te d 600 parsons sat In th e s tre e t to
protest Alabam a voter registration procedures. Eight or more w are hospitillzed.
"Then my living will not be in vain"
Every now and then I guess we all think realistically about
that day when we will be victimized with what is life’s final
common denominator—that something we call death.
We all think about it. and every now and then 1 think about
my own death, and 1 think about my own funeral. And I don’t
think about it in a morbid sense. And every now and then I ask
myself what it is that I would want said and I leave the word
to you this morning.
If any of you are around when I have to meet my day, I don’t
want a long funeral.
And if you get somebody to deliver the eulogy, tell him not
to talk too long.
And every now and then I wonder what I want him to say.
Tell him not to mention that I have a Nobel Peace Prize.
That isn’t so important.
Tell him not to mention that I have three or four hundred
other awards—th at’s not important. Tell him not to mention
where I went to school.
I’d like somebody to mention that day that Martin Luther
King Jr. tried to give his life serving others.
I’d like for somebody to say that day that Martin Luther
King Jr. tried to love somebody.
I want you to say that I tried to be right on the war question.
I want you to be able to say that day that I did try to feed the
hungry. I want you to say that day that I did try in my life to
clothe those who were naked.
I want you to say on that day that I did try in my life to visit
those who were in prison. And I want you to say that I tried to
love and serve humanity.
MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY
January 15,1983
IE N O W S
Oregon Education Association—
National Education Association
Portland Observer, January 26, 1963 Section II Page 16