‘Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.’

- Martin Luther King Jr.

Happy MLK Day 2024, everyone and I hope you have a wonderful weekend as I want to share my new art that features one of my favorite quotes said beautifully by the late and great Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Here’s the full quote: “

“And I say to you, I have also decided to stick to love. For I know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind’s problems. And I’m going to talk about it everywhere I go. I know it isn’t popular to talk about it in some circles today. I’m not talking about emotional bosh when I talk about love, I’m talking about a strong, demanding love.” — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

It’s true what he said. Love is the ultimate answer to every problem within mankind. 🙏🌹💐

Original art created by me by pencil, and later improvised the rest on @procreateapp. Thank you! 🙌😇

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Today, we celebrate Dr. King and the legacy of the woman who stood beside him to execute the vision. Coretta Scott King was an entire movement in her own right, so let’s clear the lens so we can put the optics in focus. She was an activist, A valedictorian, a singer, and a musician—a multi-hyphenate before the term existed.

We celebrate today because of Coretta - as she carried the torch to legislature where a federal holiday was made in MLK’s honor in 1983.

We won’t tolerate the erasure of Black Women who fought on the front line for your newfound mischaracterization of history for a byline. Read that again. (You hear me Johnathan majors?!? A real man would let the woman he loves be herself in the best way and loves her just the way she is. She doesn’t have to live to your impossible standards and high expectations and this includes being your corretta)

Let’s give credit and props to the legacy of Coretta Scott King. We are thankful for you. 🌸✨

Whenever the government provides opportunities in privileges for white people and rich people they call it “subsidized” when they do it for Negro and poor people they call it “welfare.” The fact that is the everybody in this country lives on welfare. Suburbia was built with federally subsidized credit. And highways that take our white brothers out to the suburbs were built with federally subsidized money to the tune of 90 percent. Everybody is on welfare in this country. The problem is that we all [too] often have socialism for the rich and rugged free enterprise capitalism for the poor. That’s the problem.

“The Minister to the Valley,” February 23, 1968, From the archives of the SCLC.*

On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, find out from the nonprofit organization Teach For America how you can honor and celebrate the civil rights leader’s life & legacy.

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If he had lived, Martin Luther King would be celebrating his 95th birthday today.  I first wrote this post in 2017 and have repeated it annually on Martin Luther King Day every year since, with some alterations as needed.  Every year, I think I should write a new one, but then I read this one and … it says everything I want to say, so … why re-invent the wheel?  In the past several years, I have…

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"Justice too long delayed is justice denied."

Martin Luther King.

"It is not enough to say 'We must not wage war.' It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it. We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war, but the positive affirmation of peace."

Martin Luther King Jr. Anti-War Conference, Los Angeles, California, February 25, 1967.

As written on the north wall of his memorial in DC.

from @/pslnational

I don’t know who needs to hear this but famed civil rights leaders Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X were not talking about pogroms or shooting up music festivals and daycares when they said “a riot is the language of the unheard” and resistance “by any means necessary” respectively.

and i know this could be said every year but this year is going to be EXTRA disgusting with zionists chiming in. it really speaks to just how much they've stolen, co-opt'd and whitewashed mlk's legacy. smfh.

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

-Martin Luther King Jr.

Happy MLK day