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Healing Racialized Trauma Begins with Your Body

By Resmaa Menakem — 2020

Resmaaa connects the healing of your body, mind, and soul with the healing of our country and our world.

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Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.

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Martin Luther King Jr.
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An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

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Martin Luther King Jr.
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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

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In the final analysis, love is not this sentimental something that we talk about. It’s not merely an emotional something. Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual.

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Martin Luther King Jr.
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The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: ‘If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?’ But the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‘If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?’

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Martin Luther King Jr.
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Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’

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Martin Luther King Jr.
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Love has within it a redemptive power. And there is a power there that eventually transforms individuals. Just keep being friendly to that person . . . they react in many ways in the beginning . . . sometimes they’ll hate you a little more at that transition period, but just keep loving them.

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Martin Luther King Jr.
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We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.

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Martin Luther King Jr.
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I Am Not Your Negro

In his final years, Baldwin envisioned a book about his three assassinated friends, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King.

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James Baldwin, Raoul Peck
2017
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MLK: The Other America

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s 1967 speech at Stanford. Here, he expounds on his nonviolent philosophy and methodology.

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Martin Luther King Jr.
2015
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