The Vegan Valedictorian (MLK) … (01/20/14)
“We can’t help but wonder: Would the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. have become a vegan at some point in his life? It’s certainly conceivable that he would have.
His son Dexter Scott King, who is president of the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Non-violent Social Change, has been vegan for more than 20 years. He once said that a plant-based diet is the logical extension of his father’s philosophy regarding non-violence. Coretta Scott King, a tireless activist for social justice, was also a vegan for more than ten years before her death in 2006. If his wife and son saw the link between animal foods and violence, it’s not hard to imagine that Dr. King would have perceived this connection at some point as well.
After all, writing from the Birmingham jail in 1963, he did make the Truth-full point that “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
On the King Center website, Coretta Scott King also wrote that, while we remember Dr. King himself today, it is also a day that commemorates ‘the timeless values he taught us through his example — the values of courage, truth, justice, compassion, dignity, humility and service…’
As such, our commitment to veganism fully honors the principles that were at the core of Dr. King’s work.”
~ inspired by Virginia Messina
The only way for us to truly honor Dr. King — the only way for any of us to truly “Let Freedom Ring” — is to have the courage to stand up and demand the freedom of ALL those who are currently imprisoned; regardless of their species.
Amen … Let it be so.
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