One of Martin Luther King Jr.’s greatest lessons was just to listen to one another: editorial

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EDITORIAL: 'This week, as we mark the 93rd year since Martin Luther King Jr.’s birth in Atlanta, can we commit to looking past differences – political, ideological, and in our belief systems – and extending that hand of hope and help to another?'

. We’re within seven years of the centennial of his birth. Yet, instead of bearing down on his ideals of justice and equality, it feels like we’re moving farther away.

Last week in Cleveland, more young people died, needlessly cut down in their teens. And other teenagersIt doesn’t have to be that way. If we work together to find the will, the resources, the energy to address youth violence, it may not have to be that way. If we accept that generational poverty is corrosive and debilitating. If we accept that childhood lead-poisoning can have lifelong impacts, impeding futures and stunting the quality of lives.

In Cleveland, we confront the daily reality that we are far from achieving the dream of a place where someone can be valued and supported based solely on the content of their character. But even MLK recognized this must be the hard work of generations, once we saw and accepted why it’s needed. As many of us have experienced on MLK Day, when commemorative events and volunteerism tend to bring us together, there is tremendous joy in reaching out and joining hands with someone who doesn’t look like you, who doesn’t come from the same religious or ethnic or racial background -- but who you recognize holds in their hearts the same human values and aspirations and goals.

 

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There's nothing as hypocritical as magas posting MLK quotes today.

One party lives by MLK’s words that we should judge people, not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. Maybe the left should adopt that philosophy and we could fix the division.

This is quite classic from cle dot com who spends so much time hating on conservatives and dividing people.

One party is actively taking voting and civil rights as part of their main platform. So no, we shouldn't juts 'look past' that.

It’s all well and good until you start talking to folks who think Jews built space lasers and JFK Jr is alive and ushering in King Donald’s reign

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