MLK Day

Happy MLK day! Started the day with sign making at the West Millcreek Recreation Center then marched to 40th and Lancaster where Martin Luther King gave his Freedom Now speech in 1965. “I know there are people who tell us to cool off. The only problem there is that we’ve cooled off too many years now and there is a danger that we will end up in a deep freeze. We must say to those to tell us to cool off, we can’t cool off because of our self-respect. Because we love America too much. They tell us to adopt a policy of gradualism. And we’ve often adopted that policy only to discover that gradualism is little more than a do-nothing-ism and an escapism which ends up in standstill-ism. We must say to the nation in this moment that now is the time to make real the promises of democracy.”