January 18, 2016 
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Dr. King consistently called for action to eliminate global poverty. Here is part of what he said at the Temple Israel in Hollywood, California on February 26, 1965, three years before his assassination:
"And we've been in the mountain of indifference too long and ultimately we must be concerned about the least of these; we must be concerned about the poverty-stricken because our destinies are tied together."
"And somehow in the final analysis, as long as there is poverty in the world, nobody can be totally rich. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny."
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Dr. King at Temple Israel in 1965
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"And what affects one directly affects all indirectly. For some strange reason, I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. And you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be.
John Donne caught it years ago and placed it in graphic terms, 'No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.' And he goes on toward the end to say, 'Any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind. And therefore never sin to know for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee.' And when we see this, we will move out of the mountain of indifference concerning poverty." Thank you, Dr. King, for stating so eloquently what Global Grandmothers believes - that helping the poor and disaffected isn't just for their good, it's for our own and our grandchildren's.
Thank you for joining us to reduce poverty and battle indifference.
May 2016 be a year of increased harmony and prosperity for our global family.
Sincerely,
Diana McDonough
President
Global Grandmothers
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