Happy 80th Birthday MLK

[DaemonSeid]

One can only imagine what he would say if he could be alive to see today.




Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.


I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

- Letters from a Birmingham Jail


In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.



I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today.


- I have a Dream


I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values.


This call for a worldwide fellowship that lifts neighborly concern beyond one's tribe, race, class, and nation is in reality a call for an all-embracing and unconditional love for all mankind.

-Beyond Vietnam



I do have a question: In your opinion, how much different do you think America would be had he not have been assassinated?

Would America already had seen a Black President?

How much more aware would the US or the world be of the cultural division here in the US and how much more (or less) progress would we have made towards bringing the country together?