This is a repost of what I did last year.
“A nation that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.”
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than a sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically… Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
If man hasn’t discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort but where he stands at times of challenge and discovery.â€Â
“Rarely do we find men who willingly to engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.”
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
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I hope that you will take some time today to reflect on the PROGRESS of Blacks in this country and not listen to the poverty and never-ending-struggle pimps that will use this day only to sound off on what Black folk don’t have. This past weekend, I added many links including a whole section entitled: Beyond the Mountaintop - Our Progress. This is just a small list of Black organizations in various professional fields where before the civil rights era we would not have been welcomed. If you have not noticed, I also added a multimedia link section as well. Here, you will be linked to various streaming audio and video presentations including a couple of speeches from MLK.
Related post:
NEWS FLASH!!! Martin Luther King Jr. is dead!
Caution!!! The following contains the “N” word. Here is an episode Boondocks where MLK is “beating up” on the black race.
Question: Why is it okay to say these things in a cartoon/comedy but not okay in any other forum?
Duane - what a coincidence. I made a post of my own in honor of MLK Day and the man - and selected the same photo to highlight.
I liked how King looked confident, yet serene in this photo.
He must have had so much of that inside: confidence and serenity (among other fine qualities.) Otherwise, how else could he have achieved what he did?
well, very many of “us” feel that it’s not okay to say these things in any form whatsoever–probably because the truth can be ugly.