Description MARTIN LUTHER KING JR AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY It was Bobby Kennedy’s eulogy for the slain martyr for Civil Rights, Martin Luther King, that always stayed with me and reaffirmed my determination to honour them both. As a young man living in Ireland, far away from the centre of this epic struggle, it was Martin Luther King and his powerful, pacifist speeches that made its mark for life on me as we listened to them virtually every night on the TV news, while he and his marchers were battered and brutalized by white racist cops while offering only heroic passive resistance. Slowly but surely I was becoming convinced that the pacifism of King and the entire American Civil Rights movement was the only path to real political freedom and change. Check out my blog posts on these American Revolutionaries! Blog post 1 Blog post 2 Please Share! Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share on X (Opens in new window) X Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Share on Telegram (Opens in new window) Telegram Share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) WhatsApp More Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) Pinterest Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window) Tumblr Share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn
