Week 1 blogs

An important point that Dr. King mentions is this: "May I say to you, my friends, as I come to a close, and just giving some idea of why we are assembled here, that we must keep—and I want to stress this, in all of our doings, in all of our deliberations here this evening and all of the week and while—whatever we do, we must keep God in the forefront. (Well. All right) Let us be Christian in all of our actions. (All right) But I want to tell you this evening that it is not enough for us to talk about love. Love is one of the pivotal points of the Christian faith, but there is another side called justice. And justice is really love in calculation. (All right) Justice is love correcting that which revolts against love. (Well)" I think what he was trying to get across was that they cannot lose their sense of religion because it is a big part of who they are as a community. It is something that keeps them close and bound. It is also not enough to talk about it, they need to actually follow through. The beliefs of the people can be found here.

My first point is after this one, but i feel that this ties in to it: "I want to say that in all of our actions, we must stick together. (That’s right) [Applause] Unity is the great need of the hour, (Well. That’s right) and if we are united we can get many of the things that we not only desire but which we justly deserve. (Yeah) And don’t let anybody frighten you. (Yeah) We are not afraid of what we are doing, (Oh no) because we are doing it within the law. (All right) And there is never a time in our American democracy that we must ever think we are wrong when we protest. (All right) We reserve that right. When labor all over this nation came to see that it would be trampled over by capitalistic powers, it was nothing wrong with labor getting together and organizing and protesting for its rights. (That's right) We, the disinherited of this land, we who have been oppressed so long, are tired of going through the long night of captivity. And now we are reaching out for the daybreak of freedom and justice and equality. [Applause]" Here he points out that they need to keep a united front. They will not get frightened or back down. If they are threatened, they are all threatened. What they are doing is not against the law so there is no point to be frightened. The definition of unity can be found here.