TIME Magazine: 50th Anniversary of March on Washington
One Man. One March. One Speech.
One Dream
Fifty
years ago, 250,000 people gathered on the National Mall for the March
on Washington, where Martin Luther King Jr. shared his dream for
America. TIME talks to the people who helped make the march a
success—from civil rights leaders to Hollywood stars—and offers
exclusive, unseen images from that transformative era.
“At
the end of the Second World War, those of us who had participated in
that conflict were under the impression that if we were triumphant over
fascism and the Nazis, that the men and women who returned from that
conflict would be celebrated and honored by our nation. Many of us went
off to that war and didn’t have the right to vote. Many of us went off
to that war and didn’t have the right to participate in the American
Dream. We didn’t really think about this thing as a dream until Dr. King
articulated it.
As a kid, there was not much I could aspire to,
because the achievement of black people in spaces of power and rule and
governance was not that evident, and therefore we were diminished in the
way we thought we could access power and be part of the American
fabric. So we who came back from this war having expectations and
finding that there were none to be harvested were put upon to make a
decision. We could accept the status quo as it was beginning to reveal
itself with these oppressive laws still in place. Or, as had begun to
appear on the horizon, stimulated by something Mahatma Gandhi of India
had done, we could start this quest for social change by confronting the
state a little differently. Let’s do it nonviolently, let’s use passive
thinking applied to aggressive ideas, and perhaps we could overthrow
the oppression by making it morally unacceptable.”
3 comments:
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was inspired by the great Mahatma Gandhi, and both men were able to keep the protests non-violent for the most part. The protests shared similar goal which was for the oppressed to become independent and free, and the motif was nothing more, and nothing significantly destructive to whom perceived as oppressors(English colonist for Indians, and the American white majority for black Americans). The protest in Cambodia, if it were to happen now, is tainted with a sense similar to and conveyed/replicated from what happened in Egypt, Lybia, and Syria, where protesters seeked more that just freedom and independence, but revenge and destruction of the governments along with the lives of the leaders and the leaders' families and relatives. That is the difference, probably insidious to some, and a red flag for all especially those favoring/pushing for the protest need to caution.
Simply not working in Cambodia!
WORK SMARTER NOT HARDER!!!
Prime Minister of Nambodia at 27.
1985-current: Expertize in controller, import-export, manipulate, natural resources, lands concession, Head of Military forces, CEO of CPP and Dictator.
Education: PhD of Hanoi University in Environmental Control
Available Upon Request: Ho Chi Minh
Graduated with Honor at 27 from MIT.
2000-current: Expertize in humanity behavior. Make a living selling items on eBay. Part-Time Pizza delivery, cashier at 7-11, door man at 5 star resort and volunteer for the poor.
Education: PhD of MIT University in Psychology
Available Upon Request: Relatives
Post a Comment