King

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King Gandhi
Justice Human Rights
Martin Luther King
Mahatma K. Gandhi
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MESSAGE
Martin Luther King day provides an opportunity
for us to reflect on some of the large issues of
humanity, the workplace and our place in the
world. I encourage everyone to take this time to
reflect on the issues of justice, human rights,
diversity, tolerance, respect and above all
non-violence.
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Ethical / Justice Issues

• Death Penalty
• The right to choose to have an abortion
• Stem cells (state, national, international)
• Genetically Engineered Organisms
• War in Iraq, Prisoners held without trial
• In vetro fertilization choosing your child's
  genes and characteristics
• War of drugs war on the poor
• Chemicals exposures Environmental Justice -
  Child health

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The First Bioethicist
Aldo Leopold
"A thing is right when it tends to preserve the
integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic
community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise."
- Aldo Leopold, 1949, A Sand County Almanac
---------- 1887 - 1948 ----------
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Technical Solutions
It is our considered professional judgment that
this dilemma has no technical solution. The
Tragedy of the Commons By Garrett Hardin,
Science, 1968
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Knowledgeable Bioethics
The challenge the knowledge of how to use
knowledge for the social good
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Justice?

• Fair
• Just conduct
• Impartial
• Equity
• Principle or ideal of just dealing or right
  action

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Human Rights?

• A right is a freedom.
• "rights" we mean the freedoms which we actually
  have.
• the freedoms which we ought to have (ethical
  rights).

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Life and Others
Life's most persistent and urgent question is,
what are you doing for others? Martin Luther
King, Jr.
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Science and Leadership
Martin Luther King, Jr. "Our scientific power
has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided
missiles and misguided men." 
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Peace Non-Violence
Martin Luther King, Jr. "Nonviolence is the
answer to the crucial political and moral
questions of our time the need for humanity to
overcome oppression and violence without
resorting to oppression and violence.  Humanity
must evolve for all human conflict a method which
rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. 
The foundation of such a method is love."
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What Is MLK Day For Me?

• Take time to consider and review the actions of
  MLK
• Leads me to Gandhi and nonviolence - which really
  means thinking about violence
• Consideration of race relations
  prejudice/racism in general
• Am I doing enough to create an environment that
  supports individuals - to encourage respect for
  others?
• A day to pause and consider the state of our
  society - Is it one that I want? For myself, for
  my family, for my friends?

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MLK Significant Events

• 1954 - Brown vs. Board of Education U.S. Supreme
  Court bans segregation in public schools.
• 1956 - Montgomery buses desegregate
• 1960 - sit-in protest movement at a Woolworth's
  in Greensboro, N.C.
• 1964 - King awarded Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1963 - Four girls killed Sept. 15 in bombing of
  the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in
  Birmingham, Ala.
• 1963 - Medgar Evers, NAACP leader, is murdered
• 1965 - Malcolm X is murdered Feb. 21, 1965.
• 1965 - President Johnson signs Voting Rights Act
• 1968 - King is murdered in Memphis, Tenn.

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Gandhi On Nonviolence

• "Nonviolence is the greatest force at the
  disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the
  mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the
  ingenuity of man."
• -Mohandas K. Gandhi

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I Have A Dream

• Martin Luther King
• Born January 15, 1929
• Assassinated April 4, 1968

I have a dream . . .
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Let Freedom Ring

• Martin Luther King
• Born January 15, 1929
• Assassinated April 4, 1968

Let freedom ring . . .
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MLK Gandhi

• Mohandas K. Gandhi
• Born October 2, 1869
• Assassinated January 30, 1948

• Martin Luther King
• Born January 15, 1929
• Assassinated April 4, 1968

• Heroes that fought discrimination.

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Another Set Of Heroes
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Another Set Of Heroes

• Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
• Beginning in the mid-19th century, several
  generations of women suffrage supporters
  lectured, wrote, marched, lobbied, and practiced
  civil disobedience to achieve what many Americans
  considered a radical change of the Constitution.
• 1872-Susan demanded that women be given the same
  civil and political rights that had been extended
  to black males under the 14th and 15th
  amendments.
• Few early supporters lived to see final victory
  in 1920. (19th Amendment)

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What Is Discrimination?

• Discriminate, v., 1. To make a distinction in
  favor of or against a person on the basis of the
  group or class to which the person belongs,
  rather than according to merit.
• Lack of Tolerance? Lack of Understanding? Lack of
  Knowledge?
• Types of
• Verbal abuse
• Racial
• Religious beliefs / age / disabilities
• Sex / orientation

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What Is Diversity?

• A broad definition of diversity ranges from
  personality and work style to all of the visible
  dimensions of diversity, to secondary influences
  such as religion, socioeconomics and education,
  to work diversities such as management,
  functional level and classification.
• Diversity is big enough to include everyone.
• How to make this POSITIVE, not negative.
• Increased Creativity different perspectives,
  ideas and solutions.

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What Is Tolerance?

• Tolerance is about each person coming to terms
  with his or her attitudes, beliefs, and
  expectations about others and gaining comfort
  with the differences.
• An environment where all people feel recognized
  for their uniqueness and included, respected and
  valued for the ideas and concepts they bring to
  the work, school or home environment.

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Martin Luther King

• "An individual has not started living fully until
  they can rise above the narrow confines of
  individualistic concerns to be the broader
  concerns of humanity. . . .Each person must
  decide, at some point, whether they will walk in
  the light of creative altruism or in the darkness
  of destructive selfishness. This is the
  judgment. Lifes most persistent and urgent
  question is, What are you doing for others?."
• -Martin Luther King

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Martin Luther King

• "I have the audacity to believe that peoples
  everywhere can have three meals a day for their
  bodies, education and culture for their minds,
  and dignity, equality and freedom for their
  spirits. I believe that what self-centered men
  have torn down, men other-centered can build up.
  I still believe that one day mankind will bow
  before the altars of God and be crowned
  triumphant over war and bloodshed, and nonviolent
  redemptive goodwill will proclaim the rule of the
  land."
• -Martin Luther King - Nobel Peace Prize
  Acceptance Speech, December 10, 1964

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Message
We must be the change we wish to see. -Gandhi
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Web Site Updates

• Seattle Times - http//seattletimes.nwsource.com/m
  lk/
• The King Center - http//www.thekingcenter.com/
• National Civil Rights Museum http//www.civilrig
  htsmuseum.org/

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MLK and Gandhi
Questions or Comments?