Thursday, April 4, 2013

ON DR. KING, RESTON, AND HICKORY CLUSTER

Today is the 45th anniversary of the untimely death of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968.  On April 16, 1963, in a letter from a Birmingham, Alabama jail in response to criticism from local colleagues, Dr. King wrote the following words that seem directly applicable to past, present, and future challenges facing Reston and Hickory Cluster:  " ... I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states.  I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham.  Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.  We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.  Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.  ... "