{"id":182340,"date":"2021-04-05T12:00:13","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T11:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=182340"},"modified":"2021-04-05T04:20:18","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T03:20:18","slug":"we-know-through-painful-experience-that-freedom-is-never-voluntarily-given-by-the-oppressor-it-must-be-demanded-by-the-oppressed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2021\/04\/we-know-through-painful-experience-that-freedom-is-never-voluntarily-given-by-the-oppressor-it-must-be-demanded-by-the-oppressed\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWe know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor, it must be demanded by the oppressed.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt;\">\u2014&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/news\/kings-letter-from-birmingham-jail-50-years-later\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Letter From Birmingham Jail<\/a>,&#8221; April 16, 1963<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Martin Luther King Jr. was an African American, Baptist minister, and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968 in the USA.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_104960\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Martin-Luther-King-mug-shots-1024-850x558.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-104960\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-104960\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Martin-Luther-King-mug-shots-1024-850x558-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Martin-Luther-King-mug-shots-1024-850x558-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Martin-Luther-King-mug-shots-1024-850x558-768x504.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Martin-Luther-King-mug-shots-1024-850x558.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-104960\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mug shots of Martin Luther King Jr. following his 1963 arrest in Birmingham, Ala., for protesting the treatment of blacks. (Wikimedia)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2014&#8221;Letter From Birmingham Jail,&#8221; April 16, 1963 &#8212; Martin Luther King Jr. was an African American, Baptist minister, and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968 in the USA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":104960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2254],"tags":[657,260,1780,625,1243,1779,2255],"class_list":["post-182340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-memorable-quotes","tag-civil-rights","tag-history","tag-martin-luther-king","tag-mlk","tag-nonviolent-action","tag-nonviolent-communication","tag-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}