power, love, kindness & justice

and the potency of militant nonviolence

Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Normally on this day, I’d take a moment to read his “I Have a Dream” speech in its entirety; but this year, I felt it really important to do more of a deep dive. Doing so helped test some of the assumptions I’d made about him.

For example, I’d known that King was deeply influenced by the philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi, …