A friend Twitters:
Service is great! But MLK’s life and work wasn’t about volunteering: it was about altering the distribution of power.
Quite so. I mean, it was about volunteering. But it was about volunteering for the cause of social justice—for a new, fairer, and more equal distribution of political and economic power. It wasn’t about doing charity work. More on this later.
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