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Originally posted by Marie
While I am all for self-empowerment, a large part of Dr. King's message was that we need to eliminate the societal conditions that create the situation that you originally described (conditions that often do not affect many immigrants, esp. European and Asian immigrants). If you have missed this point then I am forced to think that we are a ways off from truly achieving his dream.
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And another part of that message is that we all need to work together to achieve progress. Self-empowerment is great, but it has to be balanced by involvement to better the community.
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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