{"id":59428,"date":"2017-01-16T10:24:46","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T15:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/?p=59428"},"modified":"2017-01-16T10:51:03","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T15:51:03","slug":"martin-luther-king-jr-stronger-evil-triumphant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/2017\/01\/16\/martin-luther-king-jr-stronger-evil-triumphant\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Luther King Jr via Sharase DeBouse and John Lewis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our friend Sharase DeBouse said:\u00a0<em>I have to tell you, listening to <strong>Dr. King&#8217;s\u00a0speeches have kept me at times that I felt I was in my darkest hours.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Martin Luther King Jr&#8217;s words spoken decades ago resonant more strongly today than ever. We look to his words <em>keep us<\/em> now, and guide us in navigating our often very dark world.<\/p>\n<p>And we look to his friend and colleague, John Lewis&#8217; memory of the nonviolent actions taken during Bloody Sunday in Selma to change the civil rights law:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>There was no singing, no shouting\u2014just the sound of scuffling feet. There was something holy about it, as if we were walking down a sacred path. It reminded me of Gandhi\u2019s march to the sea. <strong>Dr. King used to say there is nothing more powerful than the rhythm of marching feet, and that was what this was, the marching feet of a determined people.<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Luther King Jr&#8217;s words spoken decades ago resonant more strongly today than ever. <\/p>\n<a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\" https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/2017\/01\/16\/martin-luther-king-jr-stronger-evil-triumphant\/ \">Read More<\/a>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":59435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31,6549,780,750],"tags":[5719,10325,342,5900,122,10324,10120,10326,10327,8247],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.6 - 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