2 Matching Annotations
  1. Last 7 days
  2. kinginstitute.stanford.edu kinginstitute.stanford.edu
    "Facing the Challenge of a New Age," Address Delivered at the First Annual Institute on Nonviolence and Social Change
    2
    1. sofiavasquez 09 Sep 2025
      Now we are faced with the challenge of making it spiritually one. Through our scientific genius we have made of the world a neighborhood; now through our moral and spiritual genius we must make of it a brotherhood. We are all involved in the single process. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. We are all links in the great chain of humanity.

      King's call to transform a "neighborhood" into a "brotherhood" is a call to close the gap between what we can do and what we should do. It means valuing connection not just as a function of convenience, but as a commitment to mutual respect and shared responsibility.

      Without that, we risk building a world that’s highly advanced, but deeply broken. A world where we can send messages across the planet, but still fail to hear each other.

    2. sofiavasquez 09 Sep 2025
      It was in this year that the Supreme Court of this nation, through the Plessy v. Ferguson Decision, established the doctrine of separate-but-equal as the law of the land. Through this decision segregation gained legal and moral sanction. The end results of the Plessy Doctrine was that it lead to a strict enforcement of the “separate,” with hardly the slightest attempt to abide by the “equal.” So the Plessy Doctrine ended up making for tragic inequalities and ungodly exploitation.

      By creating the doctrine of "separate but equal," the Supreme Court gave both legal and moral backing to racial segregation. In practice, however, this ruling focused entirely on keeping races separate, with little to no attempt to guarantee actual equality. As a result, African Americans faced harsh unequal conditions in education, public facilities, and nearly all aspects of daily life. The promise of equality was abandoned, allowing a system of deep injustice, exploitation, and moral wrongdoing to take hold.

    Visit annotations in context

    Annotators

    URL

    kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/facing-challenge-new-age-address-delivered-first-annual-institute-nonviolence