Reverend Jesse Jackson, Sr. Reflects on MLK
Reverend Jesse Jackson | Legendary Civil Rights Activist & Politician
"I was blessed to be part of a small group of individuals who celebrated Dr. King's last birthday with him. The time was January 1968, and we were in Atlanta, in the basement of the Ebenezer Baptist Church. We spent it challenging the methods of the powerful, the waste of war, and the need for a poor people's campaign.
Dr. King saw the world from the bottom up, and not the top down, and measured our moral worth not by what we accumulated but by what we share, and how we treat the least of these.
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