The Making of Black Lives Matter by Christopher J. Lebron

Author:Christopher J. Lebron
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

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WHERE IS THE LOVE? THE HOPE FOR AMERICA’S REDEMPTION

If we are wrong, justice is a lie, love has no meaning. And we are determined here in Montgomery to work and fight until justice runs down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream.

—MARTIN LUTHER KING JR., address at Holt Street Baptist Church, 1955

Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and we cannot live within. I use the word “love” here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace—not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.

—JAMES BALDWIN, The Fire Next Time

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