Yeah, I gotta work today too -
Jan. 16th, 2006 08:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kyburgI think the only appropriate thing to do today is quote MLK - because he is so quotable. I keep forgetting - and after Adult Swim kicked me upside the head last night (nice bumpers in the middle of Boondocks, thankUverymuch, pleasedrivethrough).
Some of the nicest, of course, are the cliches every one hears and nobody listens to.
He was one of the best speakers of our time, and I remember him -
Take it for what you will - I'm saddened that they worked so hard to find a black man to create a holiday for, even if this is is the fellow they took up for it.
Because people aren't getting past that to the person he was.
"Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love."
Find a new favorite for yourself today.
Some of the nicest, of course, are the cliches every one hears and nobody listens to.
He was one of the best speakers of our time, and I remember him -
Take it for what you will - I'm saddened that they worked so hard to find a black man to create a holiday for, even if this is is the fellow they took up for it.
Because people aren't getting past that to the person he was.
"Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love."
Find a new favorite for yourself today.
