Over the weekend, please remember to:

1. Complete the assignment on Google Classroom by Sunday
2. Bring your Of Mice and Men Books to class on Tuesday
3. Read the following quotes form Martin Luther King Jr. below. After reading them, choose 1 and on a piece of paper, write it at the top. Then, respond to it in at least one page. Your response should include your reactions to it. (Do you think he is correct in his feeling? Does it have any relevance today? Can you think of any examples to relate it to?




“The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth.”


“…the command to love one’s enemy is an absolute necessity for our survival. Love even for enemies is the key to the solution of the problems of our world. Jesus is not an impractical idealist: he is the practical realist.”


“…we must not seek to defeat or humiliate the enemy but to win his friendship and understanding.”


“If a man asserts that another man, because of his race, is not good enough to have a job equal to his, or to eat at a lunch counter next to him, or to have access to certain hotels, or to attend school with him, or to live next door to him, he is by implication affirming that that man does not deserve to exist.”


“…all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. We are made to live together because of the interrelated structure of reality.”