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15 Jan 2018, 3:20 pm

Let's all remember this holiday for just not getting a day off from school or government jobs, but to honor a man who changed America for the better.


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15 Jan 2018, 3:20 pm

Kraichgauer wrote:
Let's all remember this holiday for just not getting a day off from school or government jobs, but to honor a man who changed America for the better.

Hear! Hear!


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15 Jan 2018, 3:33 pm

Here are two things that we need to remember on MLK Day.

1# MLK made some mistakes. This doesn't make him a bad person. It makes him human. We are flawed human beings too. This means we can also change the world.
2# Although MLK was a devout Christian, he was never a conservative at any point during his life. Towards the end of his life, he even came out as a Christian socialist. He was murdered shortly afterwards. That probably isn't a coincidence.


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15 Jan 2018, 4:14 pm

MLK and Gandhi are responsible for shaping the social justice movement across the globe. He was revolutionary for using Gandhi's technique of "swaraj" or non-violent protest in the late 1950s which frustrated the racist white American authorities

Non-violent protest would be taken up to overthrow the apartheid regime in South Africa and is the weapon of choice in protest worldwide whether it be for inequality, social justice or the environment

MLK is certainly a giant of the mid-late 20th century - happy birthday :)



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15 Jan 2018, 5:40 pm

cyberdad wrote:
MLK and Gandhi are responsible for shaping the social justice movement across the globe. He was revolutionary for using Gandhi's technique of "swaraj" or non-violent protest in the late 1950s which frustrated the racist white American authorities

Non-violent protest would be taken up to overthrow the apartheid regime in South Africa and is the weapon of choice in protest worldwide whether it be for inequality, social justice or the environment

MLK is certainly a giant of the mid-late 20th century - happy birthday :)


You support apartheid though?


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15 Jan 2018, 5:58 pm

an appropriate classic MLK quote, for our times-
"Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.



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15 Jan 2018, 6:01 pm

also:

"We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope." - MLK



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15 Jan 2018, 8:21 pm

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15 Jan 2018, 8:22 pm

I wonder if we'll live to witness this?



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15 Jan 2018, 8:46 pm

Kraichgauer wrote:
Let's all remember this holiday for just not getting a day off from school or government jobs, but to honor a man who changed America for the better.


Hear, hear !



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15 Jan 2018, 8:47 pm

auntblabby wrote:
I wonder if we'll live to witness this?


We can be that day, today, ourselves, here, now. :-) It's a start... (I'm below the Mason-Dixon line.)


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15 Jan 2018, 10:02 pm

Kraichgauer wrote:
Let's all remember this holiday for just not getting a day off from school or government jobs, but to honor a man who changed America for the better.


Hear, hear!


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15 Jan 2018, 11:28 pm

auntblabby wrote:
Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. [/color][/i].


MLK also mean't the light of truth and knowledge, education was equally important for all sides



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15 Jan 2018, 11:30 pm

cyberdad wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. [/color][/i].


MLK also mean't the light of truth and knowledge, education was equally important for all sides

and on my side of the pond, our educational system leaves a lot to be desired. in America, the bottom 1/5th [academically] go into education, whereas in the rest of the world it is the top 1/5. a school guidance counselor told me that.



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16 Jan 2018, 1:36 am

auntblabby wrote:
cyberdad wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. [/color][/i].


MLK also mean't the light of truth and knowledge, education was equally important for all sides

and on my side of the pond, our educational system leaves a lot to be desired. in America, the bottom 1/5th [academically] go into education, whereas in the rest of the world it is the top 1/5. a school guidance counselor told me that.

This was a problem here in Oz as well but they recently (2 yrs ago) enacted a policy of having a minimum of a masters degree to teach. Of course one wonders if primary school teacher really requires a masters or doctorate to sing nursery rhymes and draw dot to dot



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16 Jan 2018, 8:44 am

FACT: The FBI encouraged MLK to kill himself.

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/magazine/what-an-uncensored-letter-to-mlk-reveals.html


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