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16 January 2006
Mon, 16 Jan 2006 20:40:21 GMT The Last Days of Martin Luther King in Photosvia Kjell Olsen1087 days ago -
Mon, 16 Jan 2006 01:11:00 GMT
A little something to aspire to
How many americans are there with days named after them, anyway? Presidents day is mostly about Washington and Lincoln. Labor Day oddly enough comes out of those goddamn socialist wishes for reasonable wages and the 8 hour workday. Fuck Columbus, he was the biggest asshole. That leaves Veterans and Memorial days. MLK is the only guy with his own day.
He deserves it.
What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.
This is leading a few extremists today to advocate for Negroes the same destructive and conscienceless power that they have justly abhorred in whites. It is precisely this collision of immoral power with powerless morality which constitutes the major crisis of our times.
And I say to you, I have also decided to stick to love. For I know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind’s problems. And I’m going to talk about it everywhere I go. I know it isn’t popular to talk about it in some circles today. I’m not talking about emotional bosh when I talk about love, I’m talking about a strong, demanding love. And I have seen too much hate.
Difficult and painful as it is, we must walk on in the days ahead with an audacious faith in the future.
All excerpted from Where do we go from here. Read his speeches, sermons, and lectures. Wikiquote.
And huh, the US federal government conspired, along with the city of Memphis and the state of Tennessee to kill the guy. I hadn’t heard that before. It came out in a wrongful death trial in 1999, and is noted a few places, yet disputed by scholars. Fuckin’ a.
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