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Old 01-16-2011, 09:00 PM
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Tomorrow, and the reason why we reflect.

"Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars....Hate cannot drive out hate; Only love can do that."

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"Normal fear protects us, abnormal fear paralyzes us.
Normal fear motivates us to inprove our individual and
collective welfare; abnormal fear poisons and distorts
or inner lives. Our problem is not to be rid of fear but,
rather, to harness and master it."

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"Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality
and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a mans sense
of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the
beautiful as ugly, and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse
the true with the false and the false with the true."

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"Freedom is never given by the oppressor; It must be demanded by the oppressed."

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"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."

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"When you are right you cannot be too radical, when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative."

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"Darkness is only driven out with light, not more darkness."


-------Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)

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Old 01-16-2011, 09:02 PM
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Remarkable eloquence from a brilliant and brave man.
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Old 01-16-2011, 10:44 PM
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I Have a Dream, Martin Luther King Jr. (August 28, 1963)
Not a bad 100th post.
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Old 01-16-2011, 10:55 PM
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Here's an interesting article from a friend and adviser to Dr. King on the writing of the speech.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...011406266.html
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Old 01-17-2011, 07:18 AM
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I read that article, very illuminating.
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Old 01-17-2011, 08:22 AM
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Thanks for the link, Carl. It is always good to hear that again.

Congrats on post 100. Keep 'em coming. That makes you a senior member.

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Old 01-17-2011, 12:02 PM
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It's a good time to reflect.

I grew up surrounded by white flight. Now, I live in an affluent area that is desegregated.

Even the gettos are getting desegregated

The founders and Lincoln would be pleasantly surprised. They (some at least) wanted to send the slaves back to Africa, for their own good. As they would 'never' be allowed to intermarry, they would never be accepted. But it is happening.

Congrats Carl

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Old 01-17-2011, 12:47 PM
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No one ever said it wouldn't be painfull. And boy, was it ever. But now----What Pete said.

Congrats, To my good friends, Ed and Ernie. (Ernestine).

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Old 01-17-2011, 01:04 PM
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It's a good time to reflect.

I grew up surrounded by white flight. Now, I live in an affluent area that is desegregated.

Even the gettos are getting desegregated

The founders and Lincoln would be pleasantly surprised. They (some at least) wanted to send the slaves back to Africa, for their own good. As they would 'never' be allowed to intermarry, they would never be accepted. But it is happening.

Congrats Carl

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Say Pete, which do you take credit for...making it affluent, or desegregated????

Couldn't help myself,

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Old 01-17-2011, 01:33 PM
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Oh no Chas, after growing up in their shadow, I've been learned that all things good and smart come from the boomers

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