Martin Luther King, Jr . Day

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Babyruth

Monday, January 21, 2002 - 10:08 am Click here to edit this post
Let's not forget why we are celebrating his birthday in our nation today. There are so many wonderful quotes, but I saw this one posted at another board today and loved it.


"An individual has not started living fully until they can rise above the narrow confines of individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of humanity.

Every person must decide, at some point, whether they will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. This is the judgment. Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'"

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Ketchuplover

Monday, January 21, 2002 - 12:59 pm Click here to edit this post
I'm not doing a damn thing :)

Babyruth

Monday, January 21, 2002 - 01:41 pm Click here to edit this post
Well, I at least thought you might have mustard up a little enthusiasm to relish the time off. Figures you won't get up off your buns.

Moondance

Monday, January 21, 2002 - 01:45 pm Click here to edit this post
Some of my favorite quotes...

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

"The old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind."

"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree."

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort & convenience but where he stands at times of challenge & controversy."

"Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others"

Martin Luther King Jr.

Babyruth

Monday, January 21, 2002 - 01:51 pm Click here to edit this post
Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed - we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal.

This will be the day, this will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with new meaning "My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring!"

And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every tenement 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."

--Martin Luther King, Jr.

Oregonfire

Monday, January 21, 2002 - 02:13 pm Click here to edit this post
My personal favorite:

"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."

Karuuna

Monday, January 21, 2002 - 02:20 pm Click here to edit this post
Oh, can I play?


"The time is always right to do what is right. "

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."

"Agape means nothing sentimental or basically affectionate; it means understanding, redeeming good will for all men, an overflowing love which seeks nothing in return. It is the love of God working in the lives of men. When we love on the agape level we love men not because we like them, not because their attitudes and ways appeal to us, but because God loves them. Here we rise to the position of loving the person who does the evil deed while hating the deed he does."

"We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people."

"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend."

--MLK, Jr.

Twiggyish

Monday, January 21, 2002 - 05:33 pm Click here to edit this post
I was shocked that my daughter's school did not discuss Martin Luther King or his birthday this past week. We had a good discussion about him and his contributions to society. He was a wonderful man.

Urgrace

Tuesday, January 22, 2002 - 08:41 pm Click here to edit this post
I wish that all the citizens of these United States of America knew the depth of agape, as Martin Luther King, Jr. did!

Karuuna

Wednesday, January 23, 2002 - 08:36 am Click here to edit this post
A new one for today:

Everybody can be great. . . because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr

Misslibra

Wednesday, January 23, 2002 - 10:36 am Click here to edit this post
A heart full of grace and a soul generated by love... I like that. :)

Ketchuplover

Friday, January 25, 2002 - 01:14 am Click here to edit this post
<high fives babyruth>