You get what you’re good enough to take.
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| Birth: | 12th March, 1935 |
| Death: | 23rd May, 2007 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Activist, Priest |
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David Kirk was born in Louisville, Mississippi. He was an American civil rights and anti-poverty activist. He was reared a Baptist but converted to the Melkite Catholic Church. He earned a bachelor’s degree in social science in 1957. He earned a master’s degree in social thought from Columbia University in 1964 and was ordained as a Melkite priest that year. After ordination, Father Kirk went back to Alabama and the civil rights movement. Returning to New York, he planned to start a communal house for the homeless on the Lower East Side.
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