Educators and parents can find curricular materials and lessons that invite young people to dig more deeply. You can see the whole typewritten letter and listen to him reading it. The quote is from King's Letter from Birmingham Jail. As educators and research supervisors we hope to have direct impact on students, and hopefully indirect positive impact when those students take what they've learned out into the world. King admonishes us to realize that it is not enough to succeed as an individual we need to work to enable others to succeed. This quote reminds me about the importance of direct actions, as well as the indirect implications of our actions. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be, and you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be.This is the inter-related structure of reality.” Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. “In a real sense all life is inter-related. Undoubtedly we are each inspired by favorite MLK quotations here is mine:

Research & Education Institute at Stanford University. Fortunately, an extensive collection of his work is available open-access from the Martin Luther King, Jr.

We might find new insights by reading primary source documents or listening to his speeches.

As a first step, let’s go beyond the soundbites and use our scholarly skills to uncover a bit more about the cultural, social, and political context of King's work. For some of us that might mean re-examining implicit biases, for others it might mean finding the courage to stand up to systemic racism within our own curricula, our institutions, and society at large. I suggest that in these dire times quotes are not enough. One-liners are quoted widely, and short video clips of the most famous speeches are aired. The United States observes the birthday of civil rights hero Martin Luther King each year.

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