“Injustice
anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,” wrote Martin Luther King
Jr. from a Birmingham jail on April 16, 1963. “We are caught in an inescapable
network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.”
The Atlanta-based King was explaining why he was in prison
for nonviolent demonstrations so far from home, responding to a critical public
statement by eight Southern white religious leaders. His words are timeless and
universal in part because King was a master of language but primarily because
he viewed civil rights through a moral lens.
Read the ClimateProgress
story by Joe Romm and Van Jones - “Martin Luther King And The Call To Direct Action On Climate Change.”
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