I Choose Peace June 19, 2015

This is what I posted on my Facebook tonight.  This is from the speech that Martin Luther King, Jr. gave after the murder of 4 black girls at a church in Birmingham, Alabama, September 15, 1963 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_Street_Baptist_Church_bombing. 
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I am moved to tears to see the faith and hope of the members of Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, SC, the families of the victims, and the people of this country who have joined in prayer and support. I have no new words to share, but share I must. It is my hope that by adding my voice, I am counted as one who has the courage to say love, and hope and faith shall be our way, and we will conquer hate. I choose peace.



And, this is what President Obama quoted in his speech http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2015/06/18/full-text-obamas-remarks-on-fatal-shooting-in-charleston-s-c/ about the shooting in Charleston, SC.

Dr. King's words are timeless.  It is so sad we have to revert back to them, so many times.