Please,please-rate and comment at the site on my ltte about MLK

[w8liftinglady]

http://www.thedailylight.com/articles/2009/01/14/opinion/doc496eba3142869739674607.txt
To the Editor,

On the eve of his birthday, I wonder what the world would be like if Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. were alive today. I thought his quotes would best point out where his efforts would be directed.

“Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.”

Dr. King would surely protest the torture done by America in Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib.

“We must rapidly begin the shift from a ‘thing-oriented’ society to a ‘person-oriented’ society.”

Dr. King would have been active in the discussion of the crimes committed by Wall Street financiers that have resulted in the economic crisis today.

“A right delayed is a right denied.”

Dr. King would have protested the passage of the Patriot Act, which removed several Constitutional rights after 9/11.

“One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change. Every society has its protectors of status quo and its fraternities of the indifferent who are notorious for sleeping through revolutions.”

Dr. King would have vigorously protested the “family detention centers” such as the T. Don Hutto Immigration Center in Taylor, Texas.

“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.”

Dr. King would have been at the forefront of equal access for all Americans to medical and dental care.

“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.”

Dr. King would have opposed the War in Iraq and campaigned for use of those dollars for programs that would have benefited all Americans and ultimately, the world.

“Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: — ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.”

On his 80th birthday, Dr. King would sit back, proud that an African-American is going to be sworn in as president. I hope Dr. King’s dream is finally coming true.

[mrreowwr_kittty]

1. "A right delayed is a right denied"

Dr. King would have vociferously opposed Prop 8 and all the other anti-gay propositions on state ballots.

[Jamastiene]

3. Yes, he would have.

:fistbump:

[w8liftinglady]

7. absolutely

[liberalla]

2. Wonderful!

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Happy to recommend.

[w8liftinglady]

4. self-kick..please leave a comment about this wonderful man

at the site

[w8liftinglady]

5. self-kick..please leave a comment about this wonderful man-see below

if you have the stomach,read the hateful comments towards my last letter-my neighbors are not the most enlightened people.
http://www.thedailylight.com/articles/2009/01/08/opinion/doc49664b0dab8c3850546478.txt

[w8liftinglady]

6. some more quotes by this amazing man

Reconsider your definitions. We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.







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Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question,'Is it politic?' But conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but because conscience tells one it is right.


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I have the audacity to believe that people everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, quality, and freedom for their spirits. I believe that what self-centered men have torn down, other-centered men can build up.





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Through violence you may murder a murderer, but you can't murder murder.





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History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.


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No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.




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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. The true neighbor will risk his position, his prestige and even his life for the welfare of others. In dangerous valleys and hazardous pathways, he will lift some bruised and beaten brother to a higher and more noble life.




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When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"





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The old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.




In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.





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If you can't fly, then run.
If you can't run, then walk.
If you can't walk, then crawl.
But whatever you do, keep moving.





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Oh, the worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy-five and yet not ever truly to have lived.


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We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.





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If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.




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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.






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Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.





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All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellency

[w8liftinglady]

8. another kick...

[w8liftinglady]

9. the locals have begun to rate it down already.

one of my patient's family members referred to an outstanding physician,who also happens to be African-American,with a racial epithet.This physician had stayed up all night performing life-saving surgery on his father.Dr. King's work is not done yet.

[ColbertWatcher]

10. Kick and rec. n/t

[w8liftinglady]

11. thanks..

:yourock:

[ColbertWatcher]

12. You're welcome! n/t

[w8liftinglady]

13. I hate to beg,but it is rating 2.5 out of 4-sheer spite.

[w8liftinglady]

14. kicking one more time...thanks,friends