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Tribute To Dr. King
1963
16th Street Baptist Church After Bombing
On Sunday morning, September 15, 1963, the congregation of 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama was busy preparing for Youth Day, an annual op- portunity to honor the children by giving them roles in conducting the service. After Sunday school five girls stood checking their appearance in front of a mirror in the ladies room in the basement. At 10:22 a.m. a tremendous blast shook the entire church. The bomb was so powerful that the outside brick and stone wall collapsed into the basement. Out of the rubble staggered 12-year old Sarah Collins, calling the name of her sister Addie Mae. Partially blinded and riddled with 21 pieces of broken glass, she was the only one
in the room to survive. Four other children died: Denise McNair, 11, Addie Mae Collins, 14, Carole Robert- son, 14, and Cynthia Wes- ley, 14. As news of the bombing spread across the nation, and around the world, people of all races were moved to outrage by the tragedy.
If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious val- ues - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Quotes...
Honesty
“I have tried to be honest. To be honest is to confront the truth. However unpleasant and inconvenient the truth may be, I believe we must expose and face it if we are to achieve a better quality of American life.”
Forgiveness
“Forgiveness is not an occasional act; it is a permanent attitude.”
Life’s Question
“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or the darkness of destructive selfishness. This is the judgment.
“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’”
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