WORDS FROM DR. KING

Today is the day that we, as a nation, remember and celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. King preached many compelling sermons, wrote with tremendous depth and lived with an enduring faith.In November of 1967, he preached a sermon about Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego in November 1967 at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, GA. In it he said the following:“You may be 38 years old, as I happen to be. And one day, some great opportunity stands before you and calls you to stand up for some great principle, some great issue, some great cause. And you refuse to do it because you are afraid… You refuse to do it because you want to live longer… You're afraid that you will lose your job, or you are afraid that you will be criticized or that you will lose your popularity, or you're afraid that somebody will stab you, or shoot at you or bomb your house; so you refuse to take the stand. Well you may go on and live until you are 90, but you're just as dead at 38 as you would be at 90. And the cessation of breathing in your life is but the belated announcement of an earlier death of the Spirit. You died when you refused to stand up for right. You died when you refused to stand up for truth. You died when you refused to stand up for justice.”May we not die, but live.