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​a Speaking Down Barriers project focused on the courage and truth-telling of Brother Martin Luther King, Jr. and his team, often unheard or unseen due to erasure

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Day Seven: "They say to us that we must be concerned not merely about who murdered them, but about the system, the way of life, the philosophy which produced the murderers."
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-From Eulogy for the Martyred Children, Addie Mae Collins, Carol Denise McNair, Cynthia Diane Wesley, & Carole Robertson.

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Day Six: "As long as there is poverty in the world I can never be rich, even if I have a billion dollars...No individual or nation can stand out boasting of being independent. We are interdependent."

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Day Five: "We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly."

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Day Four: "No other racial group has been a slave on American soil. It's nice to say other people were down and they got up. They were not slaves on American soil."

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Day Three: Dr. King was not a lone hero. He had a team, or a squad if you will. 

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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals in order for people today to recognize their potential agency as a part of an ever-expanding community of struggle." 
-excerpt from January's Reading for Transformation book,
"Freedom Is A Constant Struggle" by Angela Davis
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Day Two: "Others can do what they want to do, but I..."

Read: The “macroethics” of Martin Luther King Jr.: When he spoke out against the Vietnam War even his supporters deserted him — here’s how he endured

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Day One: "We are coming to get our check."​

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    • Our Beginnings
    • Stories from the Margins
    • Our Offerings >
      • Conflict Coaching and Mediation
      • Equity: BD&I Training
      • Community Events
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      • Equity School
      • Trainings
      • Reading for Transformation for Kids (R4T4K)
      • #SDBSquad National Network
    • SDB Merch
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    • FUEL THE WORK
    • Contact Us
  • Event Registration
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