King was fearless—and fearless because he was faithful—and dangerous to the segregationists. He answered to a higher authority.
Listen carefully to all the celebrations of Martin Luther King Jr. across the country today. Listen very carefully. What you'll hear endlessly is the wordbefore King's name. What you won't hear is the word that best describes him, and what he really was:. Indeed, he was the son and grandson of Baptist ministers. King was a man of God. It animated every aspect of his life, even what he studied.kind of doctor. King earned a doctorate in theology from Boston University in 1955.
"Which of you who has a friend will go to him at midnight and say to him, 'Friend, lend me three loaves; for a friend of mine has arrived on a journey, and I have nothing to set before him'"? Moral principles have lost their distinctiveness. For modern man, absolute right and wrong are a matter of what the majority is doing. Right and wrong are relative to likes and dislikes and the customs of a particular community. We have unconsciously applied Einstein's theory of relativity, which properly described the physical universe, to the moral and ethical realm. This mentality has brought a tragic breakdown of moral standards, and the midnight of moral degeneration deepens.
King then addressed those pastors who were beseeching King to slow down and be patient with the pace of change."Perhaps it is easy for those who have never felt the stinging darts of segregation to say, 'Wait,'" King wrote. He then moved from the general to the personal.
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