To Love And Challenge: An Artist’s Calling
As this coming monday is Martin Luther King Day, it only makes sense to celebrate all that Dr. King lived for, worked for, and changed in the world around us plus I just found this in my phone:
To Love and Challenge: How artists are called to love and challenge our friends, family, culture, country, and world.
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MLK’s love for America and its people was the motivation to challenge it so that America could live up to the potential he saw in it.
“Somehow this madness must cease. We must stop now. I speak as a child of God and brother to the suffering poor of Vietnam. I speak for those whose land is being laid waste, whose homes are being destroyed, whose culture is being subverted. I speak for the poor in America who are paying the double price of smashed hopes at home and death and corruption in Vietnam. I speak as a citizen of the world, for the world as it stands aghast at the path we have taken. I speak as an American to the leaders of my own nation. The great initiative in this war is ours. The initiative to stop it must be ours.”
Martin Luther King, Jr., The Trumpet of Conscience, 1967.