freedom

[Martin Luther] King would be the first to say that this struggle does not rely upon towering leaders and great speeches. Instead, he learned from the mothers and grandmothers of the South that the quilt of freedom is made of many patches and stitched by many hands, that the movement for which he spoke depended upon people working together in their own communities, turning to each other instead of on each other and taking power in their hands to build a world big enough for all the people, a world that is fearless and loving and true. - Timothy Tyson, Martin Luther King and the Southern Dream of Freedom