Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day!

Although I don't get the day off here, I thought I could still celebrate his life today so I watched Barack Obama give a message at his church (I think yesterday) and read a few of his sermons online. Trying not to preach my political views...but i liked the speech.


Below is one of my favorite quotes of his.

“We are called to play the Good Samaritan on life’s roadside…but one day we must come to see that the whole Jericho road must be transformed so that men and women will not be constantly beaten and robbed. True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see ethat a system that produces beggars needs to be repaved. We are called to be the Good Samaritan, but after you lift so many people out of the ditch you start to ask, maybe the whole road to Jericho needs to be repaved.”

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

"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."

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

"It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it."

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Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."