Remember
Today is Martin Luther King Day celebrating the guy I consider to be the greatest American who ever lived. (Think about it. Who's better?)
Terrance posts a few of his favorite MLK quotes including this gem:
No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.And one lesser known:
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
I've thought a lot about my budding pacifism and I think this is about where I come down. We must evolve new ways of addressing human conflict, but we have not yet done so. In the meantime, violence is an awful, if legitimate, method to solve problems. But we certainly need a whole mess of people trying to figure out how to make that sentiment an antiquated anachronism.
Anyway, do yourself a favor and go read Letter from Birmingham Jail.
