This is not a space prone to praising pacifists, but I believe this is a worthy exception. Martin Luther King Jr. was a huge force in making America a better place. Slavery was an abomination and segregation, while better, was still a disgrace. I joke about being a pacifist, but MLK was and did it with a strength and nobility worthy of our remembrance. It took courage and conviction to stand unarmed before police dogs, batons and bullets. But it was the only way they were going to succeed. They had to be willing martyrs to the cause and then the horrible face of the oppressors would disgust the rest of America. So they were beaten, bloodied and bombed, and still they marched. And how could you argue with their cause, simple human equality and dignity. So yeah, I'm fine with a holiday for a man who put his life on the line and died to stop us from abusing our own. "Let freedom ring. And when this happens, and when we allow freedom ring—when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children—black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics —will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: "Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"
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Jan 17 2011, 02:31 AM
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