Mlk

[McDad]

He was a masterful speaker.
Do you have a favorite quote?

Here's one of my lesser known favs:
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

MLK 1963

 

[LouderVol]

the one about riots being the language of the unheard & oppressed.

also my white privilege has my fat ass working today.

 

[Boston Vol]

“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.”

 

[BowlBrother85]

"In the end, we will not remember the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends."

 

[n_huffhines]

It's cliche, but I always get the chills when I see the clip of him talking about the mountain tops.

Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado!
Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California!
But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia!
Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee!
Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.

And when this happens, when we allow freedom to 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!"

 

[McDad]

Good ones guys.

 

[FLVOL_79]

"gosh darnit".

 

[Nerd-Vol]

"In the end, we will not remember the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends."

Damn. That’s strong.

Everything from his letter from a Birmingham Jail is fascinating. You could really feel his frustrations.

 

[volbeast33]

He was an amazing man

 

[Wishbone]

It's a shame his message has been hijacked and distorted. He rightfully believed all people were created equal and should be treated that way.

 

[TheColdVolTruth]

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.

 

[TeddyYeti]

“If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”