Video
Twitter
RSS Feed
THE QUESTION
MLK, 40 Years Later
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated 40 years ago today. What are your memories of that day? What impact did it have on you? How is King relevant to you and to us today?
Posted by
Sally Quinn and Jon Meacham on April 4, 2008 10:04 AM
FROM THE PANEL
King: A Man Between Two Eras
One of the most impressive, profound, and deft aspects of King's approach was his employment of the scriptures of America's two major religions to further reconciliation and justice.
Posted by Martin Marty, on April 7, 2008 10:12 AM
King, Weeping Word-Master and Master Stage-Manager
Jeremiah Wright is accused of “Jeremiads” in the denouncing spirit of some of Jeremiah’s speeches in the Bible book of that name. King was capable of such but his preferred mode was from the other Bible book from the Prophet Jeremiah, namely, Lamentations.
Posted by Willis E. Elliott, on April 5, 2008 9:56 AM
Taming Our Savagery, 40 Years Later
The impact of King's legacy is that he was a young man under 40 who dared to believe the world can be changed. Tragically, violence is the way some still respond to truth-telling and prophetic denunciation.
Posted by Gabriel Salguero, on April 5, 2008 9:23 AM
Martin Luther King -- A Fatal Blow to Idealism
The most appropriate memorial to Dr. King is a rebirth of idealism.
Posted by Deepak Chopra, on April 5, 2008 8:03 AM
Nonviolence Still the Way
Today in the town of Bil’in in the Occupied Territories of the West Bank of Palestine, ten nonviolent protestors were injured by the tear gas and rubber bullets with which the Israeli army responds to the weekly demonstration against the wall. They are direct inheritors of King’s legacy.
Posted by Starhawk, on April 5, 2008 7:10 AM
King Was Killed Speaking Truth to Power
I have heard so many stupid speeches about Dr. King that blather on about how he “gave his life for freedom.” He didn’t give his life; it was taken. He was shot by an assassin because he had dared to speak the truth to power about race, about poverty and about war.
Posted by Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite, on April 4, 2008 8:10 AM
Honor King's Legacy by Learning His Lessons
He is the last public figure that I can remember who preached his message straight from the Bible, including the prophetic works of Amos and others.
Posted by Charles "Chuck" Colson, on April 4, 2008 7:41 AM
Martin Luther King: The Irreplaceable Man
As a secularist, I also want to point out that the power of King's moral appeal, while rooted in his own faith, transcended all religions.
Posted by Susan Jacoby, on April 4, 2008 6:07 AM
A Prophet Who Changed My Life
His courageous words that day -- earnest, unafraid, challenging America’s moral failings without judgment or alienation -- changed my life.
Posted by Bob Edgar, on April 4, 2008 6:01 AM
Questions, Answers Still Blowing in the Wind
Forty years on, I'm still left asking the question -- with a great sense of sadness because I love America and admire it hugely and am awed and saddened at some of the things some American policies are leading to.
Posted by Nicholas T. Wright, on April 4, 2008 5:56 AM
My Memories of the Day, the Man
In responding to the question about my memories on the day Dr. Martin Luther King was killed in Memphis, Tennessee, I have several things to say. It was a morose day, a day of anger, shame and fear about his...
Posted by Sulayman Nyang, on April 1, 2008 4:39 PM
FEATURED COMMENTS
VICTORIA: i was 7 when the hill district (in pittsburgh pa)was burned down- we were at my grandmother's- 2 blocks away, amd my mother panicked and to...
