{ "clip_details": { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "towards-freedom", "title": "Towards Freedom", "author": "Isaac Skromne", "author_handle": "iskromne", "author_initials": "IS", "covertext": "Martin Luther King, Jr. \"Towards Freedom\" delivered at Dartmouth College, 1962Excerpt:\"This problem will not be solved u...", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": "<p>Martin Luther King, Jr. \"Towards Freedom\" delivered at Dartmouth College, 1962</p><p>Excerpt:</p><p>\"This problem will not be solved until enough people all over our country come to see that it is morally wrong to practice racial segregation and discrimination. And I say \"all over this country\" because no section of the United States can boast of clean hands in the area of brotherhood. It is one thing to rise up with righteous indignation when the Negro is lynched in Mississippi, or when a bus of Freedom Riders is burned in Anniston, Alabama. But a white person of goodwill in the North must rise up with as much righteous indignation when the Negro cannot live in his neighborhood simply because he's a Negro; or when a Negro cannot get a position in his particular firm; or when a Negro cannot join his particular fraternity; cannot join a particular academic society. In other words, there must be a sort of divine discontent if this problem is to be solved.</p><p>You know there are certain technical words within every academic discipline which soon become stereotypes and clichés; every academic discipline has its technical nomenclature. Modern psychology has a word that is probably used more than any other word in modern psychology. It is the word \"maladjusted.\" Maladjusted. This word is already the pride of modern child psychology. And suddenly we all want to live the well-adjusted life in order to avoid neurotic and schizophrenic personalities. But I say to you, in my conclusion, that there are certain things within our social order and in the world to which I'm proud to be maladjusted. To which all men of goodwill must be maladjusted until the Good Society is realized. I never intend to adjust myself to segregation and discrimination. I never intend to become adjusted to religious bigotry. I never intend to adjust myself to the madness of militarism and the self-defeating effects of physical violence. In the day when Sputniks and Explorers are dashing throughout space and guided ballistic missiles are carving highways of death through the stratosphere, no nation can win a war. The alternative to disarmament, the alternative to suspension of nuclear tests, the alternative to strengthening the United Nations and disarming the whole world may well be a civilization plunged into the abyss of annihilation. So I say the world is in desperate need of maladjusted men and women. Maladjusted as the prophet Amos, who in the midst of the injustices of his day could cry out in words echoing across the centuries: \"Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.\"</p><p>...</p><p>\"And I believe that through such maladjustment we will be able to emerge from the bleak and desolate midnight of man's inhumanity to man, into the bright and glittering daybreak of freedom and justice. If we will but do this, we will be participants in the creation of a new society, the creation of a great America. This will be the day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, \"Free at last, free at last, thank God almighty, we are free at last.\"</p><p>...</p><p>For discussion:</p><p>What injustices might Martin Luther King Jr. see as remaining this year?</p><p>What examples of progress exist since this speech in 1962?</p><p>What examples of the need for more \"maladjustment\" is evident today?</p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "http://www.dartmouth.edu/~towardsfreedom/transcript.html", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "-- Exodus Story", "slug": "exodus-story" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 239, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Towards Freedom | Passover haggadah by Isaac Skromne", "description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. 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What is “Freedom” ?</strong> (after Isaiah Berlin’s essay on positive and negative freedom).</p><p>       Is freedom only Negative—freedom from Coercion from others….independence.   i.e. resisting pharaohs who  pressed so hard we could not stand…. OR</p><p>       Could Freedom involve others…a commitment to being part of a community with its obligation, rules and understandings?   “let my people go so they may SERVE me…</p><p><strong>2. What does it mean to live in a Free County?  What are Liberty..and responsibilities it might entail?</strong></p><p><strong>3. Are Liberty and Unity in opposition? Is commitment to a group help or hinder freedom?</strong> When must you stand with your people/movement and quell your differences...and when must you speak up and dissent? What are limits to dissent and opting out?</p><p><strong>4. 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And it reminds of us of our power to help create justice.</p><p>A tomato purchased in the United States between November and May was most likely picked by a worker in Florida. On this night when we remember the Jewish journey from slavery to freedom, we remember numerous cases of modern slavery that have been found in the Florida tomato industry. The tomato on our seder plate might have been picked by someone who has been enslaved.</p><p>Slavery is just the extreme end of a continuum of abuse; perhaps this tomato was picked by someone facing other abusive working conditions, such as wage theft, violence, sexual harassment, exposure to dangerous pesticides, or poverty level wages—just fifty cents for every 32-lb bucket of tomatoes picked and hauled—that have not changed for more than 30 years.</p><p>But a transformation is underway. Since 1993, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, a farmworker organization in Florida, has been organizing for justice in the fields. Together with student groups, secular human rights organizations, and religious groups have convinced 11 major corporations, such as McDonald’s and Trader Joe’s, to join the Fair Food Program. Not only does the Fair Food program raise the wages of tomato workers, it also requires companies to source tomatoes from growers that agree to a code of conduct in the fields which includes a zero tolerance policy for forced labor and sexual harassment. Since 2011, when more than 90% of Florida’s tomato growers began to implement the agreement, over $8 million has been distributed from participating retailers to workers. </p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Haggadot.com", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Karpas", "slug": "karpas" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 227, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Tomato on the Seder Plate - Abridged | Passover haggadah by Isaac Skromne", "description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. 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Slowly, one group at a time, she brought relatives out of the state, and eventually guided dozens of other slaves to freedom. Traveling by night, Tubman (or \"Moses\", as she was called) \"never lost a passenger\". Large rewards were offered for the return of many of the fugitive slaves, but no one then knew that Tubman was the one helping them. When the Southern-dominated Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, requiring law officials in free states to aid efforts to recapture slaves, she helped guide fugitives farther north into Canada, where slavery was prohibited.</p><p> When the American Civil War began, Tubman worked for the Union Army, first as a cook and nurse, and then as an armed scout and spy. The first woman to lead an armed expedition in the war, she guided the Combahee River Raid, which liberated more than 700 slaves in South Carolina. After the war, she retired to the family home in Auburn, New York, where she cared for her aging parents. 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