Yeah, I gotta work today too -

[kyburg]

I 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.

Comments

[selinawoman.livejournal.com]

Good idea Donna, I'm posting a memorial on my journal too. To remember and remind. By the way, My name is Selina, good to meet you.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

I was going to debate the quote rather hotly, until I re-read it carefully. "Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral." Violence has a place; its place is when the other party has ceased to think and has brought violence to you, or is patently obviously about to do so. See also, Sheridan's Advice(*). But whenever your adversary has proven suceptible to logic or compassion (or to simply getting out of their face... Iraq...), yes, I agree, violence has no place.

I share Martin King's dream. But his dream assumes a greater dream, one in which people are free to be who they are, and to speak their minds without fear of the local, or, worse yet and more likely these days, federal, constabulary. America has a proud tradition of defending that freedom, and Martin King was part of that. So was Paul Revere, in a very different way.

I am an American. I am committed to liberty and justice for all who share this dream. But those who are opposed to that idea, I will resist by whatever means are necessary.

[caitlin.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm at work too...

Likely going to be getting off at the regular time instead of the usual time today. *wry*

C.

[dudemungus.livejournal.com]

No wonder he was so controversial. Imagine, promoting peace and morality as a means to an end.