MLK

Valis

Happy MLK day Seven...only been back to work a week and already I got a holiday..*LOL*

Sincerely,

District Overbeer

roybatty

Early morning, April 4
Shot rings out in the Memphis sky
Free at last, they took your life
They could not take your pride

Man, I wish there were more people like him around.

stillajwexelder

Man, I wish there were more people like him around.

I FULLY AGREE -- I have a dream that one day we will all be equal -- when a member of the GB -DO -CO -ELDER -PIONEER -SISTER Will all be truly equal and can ask questions and do not get disfellwoshipped because they dared to ask a question

codeblue

I second what Stillajwexelder wrote!!!

flower

Happy MLK day. You gotta admit they dont make people of his caliber anymore. People that are willing to not only believe in something but stand up for it and make their voice heard regardless of the consequences.

He was one of a kind and I think its a disgrace that this country acts as if this is not a 'real' holiday. As in most of us still have to work because most companies dont consider this a real holiday. I've decided this is the last time I work on MLK day. My company is closed on Presidents day and MLK did way more for me than any of those presidents did.

xenawarrior

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
Martin Luther King Jr.

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.

From "Letter from Birmingham Jail," April 16, 1963

Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's 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.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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

Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech, Dec. 10, 1964 Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. From "Letter from Birmingham Jail," April 16, 1963 Thank you for posting this thread Seven !!!

Special K

Happy Martin Luther King Day to all.

sincerely a man who stood up and made a difference.

special K

Nathan Natas

Every year the nation celebrates Martin Luther King Day, and every year
we have the same dream.

Someday, in this great land of ours, people, even lawyers and political
activists, will come to believe that character really does matter.

We have a dream. We will no longer deify people who plagiarize their
doctoral theses. If a man takes the title of Reverend, we'll expect him
to honor at least a few of the Ten Commandments. If a married man
competes with Hugh Hefner for sexual conquests we won't feel compelled
to listen to his moral wisdom.

We have a dream. Someday black churches in America will not be
manipulated as institutional power bases by ambitious black men. We're
starting to worry that the good reverends are using the Borgia Popes as
their role models. We dream that the day will come when lawyers and
politicians stop cynically using race as leverage to increase their
wealth and power.

We have a dream. Someday, quiet people leading lives of unheralded
virtue and real productivity will be honored. Someday all people, black
and white, will realize that the real heroes aren't the ones giving
speeches filled with bombastic rhetoric. Real heroes are quietly doing
real work: building houses, writing software code, nursing the elderly,
parenting the young - the whole cornucopia of human endeavor that
actually results in better lives for real people.

We have a dream. Someday holidays will really matter, instead of serving
as crass, meaningless tools of political correctness. People will
actually give thanks on Thanksgiving. Christians will actually celebrate
the birth of Christ on Christmas. New Year's Day will mean something
other than recovering from a hangover and watching football on the tube.

We have a dream. Someday Americans will realize that there's something
perverse about the idea of devoting an equal amount of time, and
reverence, to:
· A single civil rights leader
· All of America's presidents, including founding fathers like George
Washington and Thomas Jefferson
· And the thousands of men and women who have died defending the United
States in wartime.
Yet we have one day for Presidents Day, one day for Memorial Day, and
one day to celebrate the life of Martin Luther King Jr.

We have a dream. Although we're as sentimental as the next fool, we hope
that someday we'll all realize that early death does not qualify one for
sainthood. Whether it be John F. Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley,
Princess Diana, or Martin Luther King Jr., dying young may be the road
to legend, but hardly a guarantee that the life was worth remembering,
much less celebrating.

We have a dream. Someday men like Michael Jackson and Jesse Jackson will
realize that being black and famous is not a license for adultery and
child molestation. And that you can?t blame a lack of self-restraint on
the Evil White Oppressors.

Our final dream is that the day will come in America when one can
criticize black cultural icons without being labeled a racist. We call
this the impossible dream.

cruzanheart

May his dream come true. I'll help all I can, and he's one of Jackson's favorite historical characters.

Nina

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