Remembering Martin Luther King Jr. — part 1 of 6

In commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, UNMC Today will feature a series of photos and quotations from the civil rights leader. Today’s excerpt has King looking at the opposition’s point of view.

Tony Brown, acclaimed veteran African American journalist and talk show host, will present the Martin Luther King Commemorative Presentation Monday, Jan. 19.
The program will be free to the public and held from noon to 1 p.m. in the Storz Pavilion, lower level of Clarkson Hospital, 42nd and Dewey Sts. There will be free refreshments available for the first 300 people. Overflow audience members will be able to see a live video simulcast at the Wittson Hall Amphitheater.

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Martin Luther King Jr. with daughter Yolanda.

“Help us to see the enemy’s point of view, to hear his questions, to know his assessment of ourselves. From his view we may indeed see the basic weakness of our condition, and if we are mature, we may learn and grow and profit from the wisdom of the brothers who are called the opposition. How shall we turn the ghettos into a vast school? How shall we make every street corner a forum, not a lounging place for trivial gossip and petty gambling, where life is wasted and human experience withers to trivial sensations? How shall we make every house worker and every laborer a demonstrator, a voter, a canvasser and a student?”

Martin Luther King on Leadership: Inspiration & Wisdom for Challenging Times,
Donald T. Phillips, Author