The Emergence of Post-modernity at the Intersection of Liberalism, Capitalism, and Secularism by Matthew McManus;

Author:Matthew McManus;
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030989705
Publisher: Springer Nature

The Advance of Liberal Permissiveness and Pluralism in the Twentieth Century

I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation Five score years ago a great American in whose symbolic shadow we stand today signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beckoning light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. But one hundred years later the Negro is still not free. One hundred years later the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later the Negro is still languishing in the comers of American society and finds himself in exile in his own land. We all have come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to change racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice ring out for all of God's children. There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted citizenship rights. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline.—Dr. Martin Luther King, Speech at the Lincoln Memorial, August 23rd, 1963

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