Comments | princessdiablo: "Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted."

princessdiablo

"Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted." - MLK

Jan 16, 2007 01:14

...And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land. So I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man.

--Martin Luther King Jr., Speech in Memphis, April 3, 1968 ( Read more... )

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scaryblackdeath January 16 2007, 06:58:00 UTC

I find an excuse to have my kids to read "I Have a Dream" and "Letter from Birmingham Jail" pretty much every year. In their entirety. Any grade. I use trickery, and if that doesn't work, I use force. Doesn't matter.

Required reading for Mr. K.

He was one of the greatest of us. Ever. Doesn't make him immune to criticism. Doesn't mean you can't invoke him in a joke. You can do all that, and he's still one of the greatest.

They ever get around to putting another face on Rushmore, it seems like a no-brainer to me.

I totally made you an icon for this post. :) princessdiablo January 16 2007, 07:06:50 UTC

No one is perfect. I'm not a fan of all his stuff - his Vietnam works and I don't see eye to eye, and his non-violence seems...perhaps beyond me in enlightenment. But he's the strongest argument I've ever seen for the statement that love, not force, can change the world. Still hard for me to swallow.

And carving faces in the side of a mountain seems like the highest act of human hubris to me...

...unless we used lasers to carve on the moon. But Professor Cromedome is far from an MLK...

Re: I totally made you an icon for this post. :) b_daniels January 16 2007, 11:46:14 UTC

Lasers are cool.

martyrssmile January 17 2007, 01:25:57 UTC

FARK had a link to audio of his I Have a Dream speech
I aux'd out of my phone to avoid calls, clicked Play and cranked it so I could listen and do admin work.

One by one my co-workers went silent of all but the required work chatter and for the duration we sat and listened and remembered.

We later found out that one of my co-workers had never before heard anything but "I have a dream..." from that speech and until hearing the whole thing didn't really understand what the fuss was about...