Tag: MLK
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In Retrospect: Some Thoughts on MLK
I had decided to sit out Martin Luther King Day on the blogging front, and I was not missed. People with greater eloquence, in grander forums than this, did a much better job of eulogizing and celebrating this great man, than I could ever do. Several times during the day, my thoughts turned to Dr.…
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Wednesday Words of Wisdom: Martin Luther King Jr.
“A time comes when silence is betrayal. Even when pressed by the demands of inner truth, men do not easily assume the task of opposing their government’s policy, especially in time of war. Nor does the human spirit move without great difficulty against all the apathy of conformist thought, within one’s own bosom and in…
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Best Damned Quotes–Dostoyevsky AND MLK Jr.
Today our righteous quotes make for an End-of-April Two-Fer. My good friend Tony posted an excellent Dostoyevsky twitter quote last Friday, which at first made me feel a little guilty considering my, um, propensity for editorializing. Being the bigger man has never really been my forte, I’m afraid, behavior that has traditionally gone unchecked since,…
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A Snowy Sunday Morning
Before you read further and get all indignant, let me remind you I’m a big fan of Jesus–my upbringing in the bosom of the Methodist Church formed the framework for much of my morality–and, of course, my cynicism, my expectations of inevitable hypocracy and, ironically enough, my deeply sentimental conviction that there is good in…
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