In honor of Martin Luther King
May he R.I.P.
“When I was in Montgomery, Alabama, I went to a shoe shop quite often, known as the Gordon Shoe Shop. And there was a fellow in there that used to shine my shoes, and it was just an experience to witness this fellow shining my shoes. He would get that rag, you know, and he could bring music out of it. And I said to myself, ‘This fellow has a Ph.D. in shoe shining.’
‘What I’m saying to you this morning, my friends, even if it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, go on out and sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures; sweep streets like Handel and Beethoven composed music; sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry; sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will have to pause and say, ‘Here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well.’”
“If you can’t be a pine on the top of a hill, Be a scrub in the valley—but be the best little scrub on the side of the hill, be a bush if you can’t be a tree. If you can’t be a highway just be a trail If you can’t be the sun be a star;
It isn’t by size that you win or fail, Be the best of whatever you are.”
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MLK was the poster boy for legislated acceptance. Just my opinion.
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MLK was the poster boy for legislated acceptance. Just my opinion.
Spot on
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Just released some sort of movie on him. Reckon he had multiple affairs for a minister. Don't let that slip out in an interview. No Respect from me. Today is Robert E. Lee Day
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They got China to carve his monument For Washington D.C. Really? Why? Detente with communism? Or something?
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There are many things we’ve come to expect to have the omnipresent “Made in China” label. A pair of shoes or clothing, but hardly a statue of civil rights icon, Martin Luther King, Jr. As construction progresses on a memorial for Dr. King in Washington D.C., artists and civil rights leaders are asking why a statue for the slain leader was made by an artist in China, reports GoUpstate.com. They’re asking members of the National Memorial Foundation (which is responsible for the project) to consider using an African-American artist to create another statue and get rid of the current one. “There are so many African-American artists who could have done the statue,” said Spartanburg, South Carolina City Councilwoman Linda Dogan. “I think it is absolutely justified to get American artists
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