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Martin Luther King Jr. on Hope Despite Exile - Black Church (Jeremiah 29:11)

Source: Martin Luther King Jr.56 words

"We've been in exile—through slavery, through Jim Crow, through ongoing injustice. Yet we hold to God's promise: there IS a future, there IS hope. The arc bends toward justice because God has plans. We are not abandoned in our Babylon; we are held in God's purposes." — Martin Luther King Jr. Black Church exile and hope.

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Jeremiah 29:11

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