A National Holiday...All About Love...

The word(s) of the year.

Last year the words were:

Faith: is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen

and

Grace: unmerited mercy


This year:

* from the Oxford English Dictionary

Integrity:

Definition of integrity

noun

• 1. the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles: 
•  2. the state of being whole and undivided:

• the condition of being unified or sound in construction:
• internal consistency or lack of corruption...

Orgin

• late Middle English (in integrity (sense 2)): from French intégrité or Latin integritas, from integer 'intact' (see integer). Compare with entirety, integral, and integrate

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There are those whose message stands the test of time.  Many times because that message comes from the inner most depth of the human heart or human experience.  This message can not be erased, ignored nor destroyed. One day some one is born (dar luz) and through there life "message" this person influences, motives, inspires, frightens, challenges and ultimately changes the course of human history.  They are that pebble dropped in the water and there message(s) are the ripples that continue on forever.


This is an except taken from a speech given:

"On Saturday August 21, 1965 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr traveled to Montreat North Carolina (near Asheville) to deliver a speech entitled "The Church on
the Frontier of Racial Tension". The speech was given at the Christian Action Conference of the Presbyterian denomination"

To whom much is given-grace- much is demanded -faith-and a life worthy of the sacrifices of others.  The rock of that life, the stone, the foundation-integrity.

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The Celebration : The National Holiday:  January 21, 2013

LOVE  won over hate Again

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Witnessing

Sonda

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http://www.history.com/topics/slavery/videos?mkwid=s4DsGeaKl_pcrid_14672158158_pkw_slavery%20days_pmt_b&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=slavery%20days&utm_campaign=G_Slavery&paidlink=1&cmpid=PaidSearch_google_G_Slavery_slavery%20days#harriet-tubman-and-the-underground-railroad

*John Hope Franklin: From Slavery to Freedom*

( http://youtu.be/D25224afEGY )

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html

http://www.biography.com/people/carter-g-woodson-9536515

 

http://www.biography.com/people/rosa-parks-9433715?page=1