Tomorrow, and the reason why we reflect.

[BlueStreak]

"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)

Dave

[finnbow]

Remarkable eloquence from a brilliant and brave man.

[mossbacked]

Originally Posted by finnbow

Remarkable eloquence from a brilliant and brave man.

Agreed, and I might add the journalists of the day villified Dr. King, printing stories in their words that were diametrically opposed to his words. Does history repat?

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by mossbacked

Agreed, and I might add the journalists of the day villified Dr. King, printing stories in their words that were diametrically opposed to his words. Does history repat?

And J. Edgar Hoover accused him of being a Communist. I believe Tailgunner Joe did the same, but I'm not totally sure of that. Yes, history does repeat.
Whenever someone starts to buck the system, the system screams "Communist."

Dave

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by mossbacked

Agreed, and I might add the journalists of the day villified Dr. King, printing stories in their words that were diametrically opposed to his words. Does history repat?

To give you an idea of how times have changed, I remember very well the day that King was shot. I was watching TV in my bedroom in Rockville, MD (I was 14 years old) and a newsflash came on the TV to say that Dr. King had been shot. I ran to tell my mother (born 1916 near Selma, AL), to which she responded "I hope they killed that SOB."

A lot of folks were very uncomfortable (to say the least) about Dr. King's ideas and actions.

[Charles]

Originally Posted by finnbow

To give you an idea of how times have changed, I remember very well the day that King was shot. I was watching TV in my bedroom in Rockville, MD (I was 14 years old) and a newsflash came on the TV to say that Dr. King had been shot. I ran to tell my mother (born 1916 near Selma, AL), to which she responded "I hope they killed that SOB."

A lot of folks were very uncomfortable (to say the least) about Dr. King's ideas and actions.

You had your own teevee as a Kid??? I had a crappy AM/FM radio which may as well been AM only, due to the lack of FM stations.

My Dad mirrored you mothers statement. Then again, he thought Billy Graham was a "long haired SOB who needs a haircut".

Chas

[CarlV]

I Have a Dream, Martin Luther King Jr. (August 28, 1963)
Not a bad 100th post.

[d-ray657]

Originally Posted by CarlV

I Have a Dream, Martin Luther King Jr. (August 28, 1963)
Not a bad 100th post.

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.

Regards,

D-Ray

[finnbow]

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

[merrylander]

I read that article, very illuminating.