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Fort Madison, Branch
OF THE
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
NEWSLETTER  APRIL 18, 1968
Fort Madison, Iowa 52627
REGULAR MEMBERSHIP MEETING!
SUNDAY - APRIL 21, 1968
CITY HALL - 8th St. at Avenue E
5:30 PM
__________________
[underline] PLEASE [/underline] bring along or turn in the question slips about the change of meeting time. The [underline] final [/underline] decision will be made at this meeting.
________________________
***IN MEMORIAM ***
Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.
1929 - 1968
*****************
"If a man has nothing that was worth dying for, then he is not fit to live.' So, he died while involving himself, unselfishly in a cause which he considered worthwhile. It will be up to all of us who believe in non-violence and the love and brotherhood of man, to see that his death and those of all of the martyrs of the civil-rights struggle, is not in vain. Below are some of the quotations which have come from some of his speeches and letters. It would behoove all of us to meditate on them. He left a legacy...one of love.
*******
"If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, "There lived a great people - a black people - who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.' This is our challenge and our overwhelming responsibility."
1955 - Montgomery, Alabama
**
"Hate is always tragic. It is as injurious to the hater as it is to the hated. It distorts the personality and scars the soul...As a race we must work passionately and unrelentingly for first-class citizenship, but we must never use second-class methods to gain it. If this happens, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and our chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos."
1962 - Washington, D. C.
**
"We are tired of living in the dungeons of poverty, ignorance and want. We have come to a day when a piece of freedom is not enough for us as human beings...If the inexpressable cruelties of slavery could not extinguish our existence, the opposition we now face will surely fail. We feel that we are the conscience of America."
1963 - Birmingham, Alabama
**
"I am only too well aware of the weaknesses and failures which exist, the doubts about the efficacy of nonviolence...But I am still convinced that nonviolence is both the most practically sound and morally excellent way to grapple with the age old problems of racial injustice."
1964 - Oslo, Norway
**

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Fort Madison, Branch OF THE National Association for the Advancement of Colored People NEWSLETTER APRIL 18, 1968 Fort Madison, Iowa 52627 REGULAR MEMBERSHIP MEETING! SUNDAY - APRIL 21, 1968 CITY HALL - 8th St. at Avenue E 5:30 PM __________________ [underline] PLEASE [/underline] bring along or turn in the question slips about the change of meeting time. The [underline] final [/underline] decision will be made at this meeting. ________________________ ***IN MEMORIAM *** Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. 1929 - 1968 ***************** "If a man has nothing that was worth dying for, then he is not fit to live.' So, he died while involving himself, unselfishly in a cause which he considered worthwhile. It will be up to all of us who believe in non-violence and the love and brotherhood of man, to see that his death and those of all of the martyrs of the civil-rights struggle, is not in vain. Below are some of the quotations which have come from some of his speeches and letters. It would behoove all of us to meditate on them. He left a legacy...one of love. ******* "If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, "There lived a great people - a black people - who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.' This is our challenge and our overwhelming responsibility." 1955 - Montgomery, Alabama ** "Hate is always tragic. It is as injurious to the hater as it is to the hated. It distorts the personality and scars the soul...As a race we must work passionately and unrelentingly for first-class citizenship, but we must never use second-class methods to gain it. If this happens, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and our chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos." 1962 - Washington, D. C. ** "We are tired of living in the dungeons of poverty, ignorance and want. We have come to a day when a piece of freedom is not enough for us as human beings...If the inexpressable cruelties of slavery could not extinguish our existence, the opposition we now face will surely fail. We feel that we are the conscience of America." 1963 - Birmingham, Alabama ** "I am only too well aware of the weaknesses and failures which exist, the doubts about the efficacy of nonviolence...But I am still convinced that nonviolence is both the most practically sound and morally excellent way to grapple with the age old problems of racial injustice." 1964 - Oslo, Norway **