A King's Reminder
Ursula Hennessey ·
Jan 15, 2011 at 6:27am
Considering all that has happened this past week, and in concert with Rob's post, I offer this quote from Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from a Birmingham Jail:
... I must confess that I am not afraid of the word "tension." I have earnestly opposed violent tension, but there is a type of constructive, nonviolent tension which is necessary for growth. Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the bondage of myths and half truths to the unfettered realm of creative analysis and objective appraisal, so must we see the need for nonviolent gadflies to create the kind of tension in society that will help men rise ...
King would have been 82 years old today.
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May '10
Re: A King's Reminder
I'm adding "nonviolent gadfly" to the business card (next to dilettante adventurer). Unless I bump into Julian Assange. There May Be Fisticuffs, sir.
Oct '10
Re: A King's Reminder
Ursula Hennessey: Considering all that has happened this past week, and in concert with Rob's post, I offer this quote from Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from a Birmingham Jail:
King would have been 82 years old today. ·
So, whatever happened to Socrates? Oh yeah, that's right...
Jun '10
Re: A King's Reminder
Martin Luther King, Jr said that? Doesn't count, wasn't he a Republican?
Jun '10
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I think it was Daddy King who was a Republican.
As a kid gowing up in the South, I heard and said awful things about MLK. I now believe that he belongs in the pantheon of American patriots and heros. His leadership in non-violent, passive acceptance of the hate and violence of segregationists was a brilliant moral and political campaign that caused people in the South (and elsewhere) to move from indifference to support and from hatefulness to shame. His legacy is one for all Americans. Thank you and bless you, Dr King.