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04-04-2008, 09:34 AM | #1 | |
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40 years ago today - The Rev'd Martin Luthor King jr.
http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories...i_193517.shtml
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04-04-2008, 11:33 AM | #2 |
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A great commentary .
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04-04-2008, 01:23 PM | #3 |
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Early morning... April 4...
Shot rings out in the Memphis skY... Free at last! They took your life They could not take your pride
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04-04-2008, 01:42 PM | #4 |
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The comments under the article are also interesting...
Thanks for posting Mr. Bishop. I don't believe we've met?
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04-04-2008, 11:19 PM | #5 |
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"We've committed more war crimes almost than any nation in the world, and I'm going to continue to say it. And we won't stop it because of our pride and our arrogance as a nation. But God has a way of even putting nations in their place." King then predicted this response from the Almighty: "And if you don't stop your reckless course, I'll rise up and break the backbone of your power." "
Good thing MLK isn't around today- Obama would have to be apologising for him.
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04-05-2008, 11:31 AM | #6 |
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If anyone here hasn't read his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" I truly recommend it. I read that a few semesters ago for my first politics class, and wrote a paper on it.
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04-05-2008, 11:38 AM | #7 | |
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Yes, I strongly believe that the Letter from the Birmingham Jail was inspired by the Holy Spirit. Not on a par with scripture, obviously, but it is incredible.
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If the world has indeed, as I have said, been built of sorrow, it has been built by the hands of love, because in no other way could the soul of man, for whom the world was made, reach the full stature of its perfection. ~Oscar Wilde, written from prison Oscar Wilde's last words: "Either the wallpaper goes, or I do." |
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04-05-2008, 12:42 PM | #8 |
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I somehow think Obama might shie away from that apology... ..
So - who was the greater man - MLK or the Assasin? Historically? |
04-05-2008, 12:46 PM | #9 |
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Obviously MLK....even if he hadn't been assassinated, his work would still have changed America's laws. Perhaps the assassin speeded that up, but who knows. In any case, he (the assassin) accomplished the opposite of what he intended.
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04-05-2008, 08:08 PM | #10 | |
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04-05-2008, 08:20 PM | #11 |
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Jeremiah Wright is not in the vein of MLK jr. He is in the vein of pre-Egypt-trip Malcolm X, and Louis Farrakhan.
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