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The Three Evils
21st Annual —
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"Keep Alive The Dream "
Racism, war and poverty
plague the United States
Tribute to! Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
society, it means ultimately coming to see
/Vow,
when I say questioning the whole
that the problem o f racism, the problem o f
economic exploitation, and the problem o f war are all tied together.
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Jefferson High School
School o f Champions ~ School o f Pride
The Robert G. Ford M emorial Theater
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to be saved. Jesus didn't get hogged down on the kind o f isolated
approach o f what you shouldn 't do. Jesus didn't say, "Now Nicodemus,
you must stop lying." He didn't say, "Nicodemus, now you must not
commit adultery.” He didn't say, "Now Nicodemus, you must stop
cheating if you are doing that." He didn't say, "Nicodemus, you must
stop drinking liquor if you are doing that excessively." He said
something altogether different, because Jesus realized something
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looked at him and said, "Nicodemus, you must he horn again."
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night, a juror came to Jesus and he wanted to know what he could do
basic: that if a man will lie, he will steal. A nd if a man will steal, he
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A nd i f you will let me he a preacher ju st a little hit. One day, one
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Jefferson High School
These are the triple evils that are interrelated.
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will kill. So instead o f ju st getting hogged down on one thing, Jesus
In other words, "Your whole structure must he changed. "A nation
that will keep people in slavery fo r 244 years will "thingify" them and
make them things. And therefore, they will exploit them and poor
people generally economically. A nd a nation that will exploit eco
nomically will have to have foreign investments and everything else,
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and it will have to use its military might to protect them. All o f these
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problems are tied together. —
M a rtin L u th e r K in g Jr.
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Blackand Beautiful
King prom oted racial
pride and equality
Where do we go fro m here ? First, we m ust
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m assively assert o ur d ig n ity a n d worth. We
m ust sta n d up a m id a system that still
oppresses us a n d develop an unassailable
and m ajestic sense o f values. We m ust no
longer be a sh a m ed o f being black. The jo b
o f arousing m anhood w ithin a p eo p le that
have been taught f o r so m any centuries that they are nobody is not easy.
Even semantics have conspired to make that which is black seem ugly and
degrading. In R o g et’s Thesaurus there are som e 120 synonym s fo r blackness
and at least sixty o f them are offensive, such words as blot, soot, grim, devil,
and foul. A nd there are some 134 synonym s fo r whiteness and all are
favorable, expressed in such words as purity, cleanliness, chastity, and
innocence. A white lie is better than a black lie. The m ost degenerate m em ber
o f a fa m ily is the “black sheep. ” Ossie Davis has suggested that maybe the
English language should be reconstructed so that teachers will not be fo rced
to teach the Negro child sixty ways to despise himself, and thereby perpetuate
his fa lse sense o f inferiority, and the white child 134 ways to adore himself,
and thereby perpetuate bis fa lse sense o f superiority. The tendency to ignore
the Negro’s contribution to American life and strip him o f his personhood is as old
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as the earliest history’ books and as contemporary as the m orning’v newspaper.
To offset this cultural homicide, the Negro m ust rise up with an affirmation
o f his own Olympian manhood. Any m ovem ent fo r the N eg ro ’s freedom that
overlooks this necessity is only waiting to be buried. A s long as the m ind is
enslaved, the body can never be free. Psychological freedom , a firm sense o f
self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night o f physical
slavery. No Lincolnian Emancipation Proclamation, no Johnsonian civil
rights bill can totally bring this kind o f freedom. The Negro will only be free
when he reaches down to the inner depths o f bis own being and signs with
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the pen and ink o f assertive m anhood his own emancipation proclamation.
A nd with a spirit straining toward true self-esteem, the Negro m ust boldly
throw o ff the manacles o f self-abnegation and say to him self and to the world,
“I am somebody. I am a person. I am a man with dignity and honor. I have
a rich and noble history, however painful and exploited that history has been.
Yes, / was a slave through my foreparents, and now I ’m not asham ed o f that.
Em asham ed o f the people who were so sinful to make me a slave. ’’ Yes, yes,
we m ust stand up and say, “Em black, but I ’m black and beautiful. ”
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— M arlin Luther King Jr., excerpted from “ Where do we go from here?” August 16, 1967