Sunday, January 16, 2011

MARTIN L. KING A PEACEFUL WARRIOR






A dreamer , freedom fighter, yet a peaceful warrior.
Philosopher, preacher, , envisionist, motivator.



The voice of one man can change the course of his generation...
and leave a legacy. King the peaceful warrior.

He shared a dream that affected us all
In the face of adversity he by example stood so brave and tall.


KING envisioned the sweltering heat of injustice and oppression would be transformed into a Oasis of Freedom.


He had the faith in this nation rising and living up to its creed.
Holding this truth to be self evident that all men are created equal!



In the spirit of rememberence to a great man that passed our way and touch so many hearts and souls!
















MLK FAMOUS QUOTES:
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All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.
Martin Luther King Jr.

Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase.
Martin Luther King Jr.

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
Martin Luther King Jr.


Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
Martin Luther King Jr.


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


I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
Martin Luther King Jr.



In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Martin Luther King Jr.


It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
Martin Luther King Jr.


Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.
Martin Luther King Jr.


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.


Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
Martin Luther King Jr.


Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Martin Luther King Jr.



Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars... Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
Martin Luther King Jr.


Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.
Martin Luther King Jr.


Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.
Martin Luther King Jr.



We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Martin Luther King Jr.


When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.
Martin Luther King Jr.


The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
Martin Luther King Jr., "Strength to Love"


All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.

Martin Luther King Jr., 'Strength to Love,' 1963


The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.
Martin Luther King Jr., 'Strength to Love,' 1963


Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence.

Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

Martin Luther King Jr., December 11, 1964



Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963



The church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society.

Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 1963



Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream.

It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed:

- 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.'

Martin Luther King Jr., Speech at Civil Rights March on Washington, August 28, 1963

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I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

Martin Luther King Jr., Speech in Detroit, June 23, 1963


...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, the day before King was assassinated


Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963



Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power.
We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963




The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963




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Tea Party Wants Slavery Removed From Student Textbooks



Whitewashing of Black History in Text Books - Update

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More of the truth is feared of being ripped out of society and replaced with untruth or not mentioned at all.



IT'S bad enough that (slavery) is pretty much all that is taught in the history books to start with.


There is so much more that needs to be revealed to the African community at large. This very country was built and founded on African principles, philosophy, religion and science.

The secret is out! mathematics, Astronomy to say the least.


Why not erase any and all mention of slavery and genocide from United States textbooks all together?


Textbooks scrubbed free of slaves' blood and government-sanctioned murder, ensuring that history books are palatable for generations of bright-eyed school children for generations to come.



After a news conference on Wednesday, about two dozen members of the Tea Party of Tennessee presented lawmakers with a list of "priorities and "demands" for the 2011 legislative session.



According to the Party, it would "besmirch the image of the Founding Fathers" to be honest about this nation's history.



In material distributed to the legislators, they demanded that state laws governing textbook criteria ensure that "no portrayal of minority experience in the history which actually occurred shall obscure the experience or contributions of the Founding Fathers, or the majority of citizens, including those who reached positions of leadership."


Party spokesman and Fayette County attorney Hal Rounds said the group wants to address "an awful lot of made-up criticism" about, for instance, the founders intruding on the Indians or having slaves or being hypocrites in one way or another.



As it stands, African Americans rarely get mentioned in any historical context at all if not that of the slave or loyal sidekick. Only the most passive of us managed to escape unscathed into the history books and now this bastion of bigotry from "the Volunteer State" wants to exclude even that so we don't "besmirch" our founding fathers' legacy?

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Our children need to know their history. They deserve to understand what we've overcome, so that they know what they can become.


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They are attempting to hypnotize our children into a mindless state of group think in hopes of erasing what continuously exists, even if in different forms.



If they can re-create history in a way that minimizes slavery, then it will be easier for all the subsequent inequalities to be deemed an exaggeration.


Americans will perceive the judicial, educational, occupational and health care disparities facing minorities not as remnants of slavery and Jim Crow, but a testament to the laziness and apathy of African Americans.




If that shift occurs, it will be easier to implement their radical call for the repeal of the 17th Amendment, bringing this country back to square one as it pertains to race relations.



So to the Tea Party of Tennessee: Maybe you all should strive to genuinely erase prejudice and injustice in this country instead of perpetuating division, violence and historical myths.


Then maybe your legacy won't need to be whitewashed to absolve your descendants of guilt as you're pathetically trying to do now.



Our history is important to us and the world needs to know the truth about slavery and before slavery occurred!


hotep!