https://padlet.com/padulo/9a820pry1iui Collaboration in LEAD 320 en-us 2017-03-02 16:37:32 UTC 2017-03-02 20:03:09 UTC hello@padlet.com padulo https://padlet.com/padulo/9a820pry1iui/wish/157410276 MLK is compelled to carry the gospel of freedom"

MLK begins the address with "My Dear Fellow Clergymen" p.1 

"we've been waiting 340 years for our God-given rights" 

President of Southern Christian Leadership conference

Speaks about Christian notions that require Christians to wait for good/necessary/inevitable things to come, then states that "human progress never rolls in on inevitability; it comes through tireless efforts of men willing to be co-workers with God, and without this hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the forces of social stagnation" 

Last Paragraph of Page 395

"There was a  time when the church was very powerful -- in the time when the early Christians rejoiced at being deemed worthy to suffer for what they believed" p.399]]> 2017-03-02 17:28:17 UTC https://padlet.com/padulo/9a820pry1iui/wish/157410276 padulo https://padlet.com/padulo/9a820pry1iui/wish/157410486 President of Souther Christian Leadership conference

"We have some eighty five affiliated organizations across the South, and one of them is the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights."

-MLK created direct action of workshops and non violent meetings after the disappointment of past experiences. 

"There have been more unsolved bombings of Negro homes and churches 




I wish you had commended the Negro sit-inners and demonstrators of Birmingham for their sublime courage, their willingness to suffer and their amazing discipline in the midst of great provocation. " p. 400

]]> 2017-03-02 17:28:51 UTC https://padlet.com/padulo/9a820pry1iui/wish/157410486 padulo https://padlet.com/padulo/9a820pry1iui/wish/157410610 "The other force is one of bitterness and hatred ... it is expressed in the various black nationalist groups... the largest and best known being Elijah Muhammad's Muslim movement..." page 6 MLK is talking about an Islamic movement that started in Michigan and practiced many beliefs that do not align with Islam at all (as MLK quotes "concluded that white man is an incorrigible devil). This movement was later refined to be more in align with Muslim values. 

calls upon his Jewish brothers to show their good will to African Americans


]]> 2017-03-02 17:29:10 UTC https://padlet.com/padulo/9a820pry1iui/wish/157410610 padulo https://padlet.com/padulo/9a820pry1iui/wish/157410737 -Civil disobedience isn't a new concept to the growth of America. 
--Commitment to the idea everyone should be equal
-"all men are created equal" 

"We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor, but must be demanded by the oppressed."

"Any law that uplifts human personality is just. Any law that degrades human personality is unjust."

"In our own nation, The Boston Tea Party represented a 

"...They were in reality standing up for what is best in the American dream and for the most sacred values in our Judaeo-Christian heritage, thereby bringing our nation back to those great wells of democracy which were dug deep by the founding fathers in their formulation of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence." 

his actions are a pursuit of the American Dream 

"One day the South will know that when the..... thereby bringing our nation back to those great wells of democracy which were dug deep by the founding fathers in the formulation of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence" (P. 400)]]> 2017-03-02 17:29:28 UTC https://padlet.com/padulo/9a820pry1iui/wish/157410737