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Writings: Dr. Martin Luther King’s thoughts, on love..eros & philia & agape

Posted on February 20, 2014by mktdaf

As luck would have it (and all monks know they are lucky – why else would we win so often, with each roll of the dice?), I grew up in Montgomery, Alabama, in the Southeastern United States in the time of Dr. King. Those marches & changes & speeches & rallies & protests all happened…

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