Matthew Grover

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

🗣️📕 ✍🏽 A list of #MLK speeches and sermons in which he courageously speaks truth; shares about Kingian nonviolence; and expounds on issues of injustice and what our righteous, rigorous response should be. Relevant. Revelatory. Revolutionary. #MLKDay #MLK96 #MissionPossibleMLK

1. ‘The Other America.’ Full speech: https://t.co/9U5vNDZKJK​​

“It's more difficult today because we are struggling now for genuine equality. And it's much easier to integrate a lunch counter than it is to guarantee a livable income and a good solid job.” From ‘The Other America.”

2. “Nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation.” #NobelPeacePrize Acceptance Speech

Full speech: https://t.co/3UTT2rjtqc

3. “This problem of spiritual and moral lag, which constitutes modern man's chief dilemma, expresses itself in three larger problems which grow out of man's ethical infantilism.” From #MLK’s Nobel Peace Prize Lecture, ‘The Quest for Peace and Justice’

Full speech: https://t.co/MR6UHCF3ih

4. From ‘Paul’s Letter to American Christians’:

“Oh America, how often have you taken necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes.”

Full speech: https://t.co/nVKrFpr78F

5. #MLK in 1967, but he could be talking about today: “And so the collision course is set. The people cry for freedom and the congress attempts to legislate repression.” From ‘The Three Evils of Society.’

Full speech: https://t.co/BzMMOjuuB8

6. ‘Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence.’ Please spend some time with it. “If America's soul becomes totally poisoned, part of the autopsy must read: Vietnam. It can never be saved so long as it destroys the deepest hopes of men the world over.”

Full speech: https://t.co/R60TSNsbzq

7. #LetterfromBirminghamJail: https://t.co/foI8px4hJ1

[Matthew Hodson @Matthew_Hodson]

A 🧵 on #AIDS in the 80s/90s:
I was 15 when I first had sex with a man.
I’d snuck off to London’s Heaven nightclub with the express intent of ridding myself of my ‘gay virginity’, a goal I achieved easily with a visiting American photographer.
1/13
#LGBTplusHM #UnderTheScope

[FabForward 𓂆 @Fab_Fwd]

Seeing some news (finally) about Long Covid behaving like HIV.

I have been HIV positive since 2007 and am very lucky to have a very good doctor, an HIV specialist, so I asked him about it.

[Rep. Gwen Moore @RepGwenMoore]

I am deeply disturbed by the neo-Nazi demonstrations in Madison today.

Hate, white supremacy, and anti-semitism have no place in America.

[Working Families Party 🐺 @WorkingFamilies]

ceasefire now.

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

Our country subjects people in need of food assistance to a litany of conditions to qualify, yet refuses to place a *single* condition on billions of public funds to prevent enabling an atrocity.

It is appalling. Thousands of children, dead. This is the result of “no red lines.”

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

Cutting off all communication to a population of 2.2 million is unacceptable. Journalists, medical professionals, humanitarian efforts, and innocents are all endangered.

I do not know how such an act can be defended. The United States has historically denounced this practice.

[Nina Turner @ninaturner]

Do not look away.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Two million views so far on this video clip of my appearance on @MSNBC last night.

Glad people are interested in understanding what Gaza is, what it’s endured, and who actually lives there (lots of kids!) - and not just conflating the whole place with Hamas.

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

My mother, #CorettaScottKing, said, “It doesn’t matter how strong your opinions are. If you don’t use your power for positive change, you are, indeed, part of the problem.”

[Nina Turner @ninaturner]

The solution to poverty is money. Simple.

[The White House 46 Archived @WhiteHouse46]

Congressional Republican math is complaining about student debt relief while having $987,237 of your own PPP loans forgiven.

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

We are in a climate emergency.

[We Are Somebody @StrikeForAll]

Corporations offering their workers raises: https://t.co/hXe0s3VoRS

[Cori Bush @CoriBush]

Today, 75,000 Kaiser Permanente workers walked off the job, becoming the largest healthcare strike in US history.

I stand in solidarity with them in their fight. ✊🏾

[Laphonza Butler @LaphonzaB]

I'm honored to accept Gov. @GavinNewsom's nomination to be U.S. Senator for a state I have made my home and honored by his trust in me to serve the people of California and this great nation. 🧵

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

Here’s what went down: we just won a clean 45 day gov extension, stripped GOP’s earlier 30% cuts to Social Security admin etc, staved off last minute anti-immigrant hijinks, and averted shutdown (for now).

People will get paychecks and MTG threw a tantrum on the way out. Win-win

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

New York is experiencing disastrous flooding and a Republican shutdown means the National Flood Insurance Program will expire tomorrow night.

This is lunacy. A bipartisan deal was agreed to months ago. Dems held up their end. GOP needs to stop playing games and follow through.

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

Boy math is needing 15 attempts to count the votes correctly to become Speaker and then shutting down the government 9 months later

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

First President in modern American history to join a union picket line.

That’s in no small part thanks to a modern surge in worker organizing and record public support of unions.

Keep going ✊🏽