Today's date is kind of scary: 040404 - Democratic Underground

zulchzulu

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Sun Apr-04-04 09:41 AM
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Today's date is kind of scary: 040404

36 years ago, Martin Luther King was assassinated...
http://www.webcom.com/~lpease/collections/assassinations/mlk.htm

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He loved Big Brother

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Sun Apr-04-04 10:07 AM
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1. Early morning, April 4

Shot rings out
In a Memphis Sky
Free at last, they took your life
They could not take your pride

:(

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mia

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Sun Apr-04-04 11:48 AM
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2. In tribute to a great man

King's speeches still ring true. I miss him.

Martin Luther King Jr. speaks on the eve of his assassination.

Well, I don't know what will happen now. We've got some difficult days ahead. But it doesn't matter with me now. Because I've been to the mountaintop. And I don't mind. Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get will get to the promised land. And I'm happy, tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.

Reach back to the time when our religious leaders practiced what they preached.

Martin Luther King: Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence

"True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth. With righteous indignation, it will look across the seas and see individual capitalists of the West investing huge sums of money in Asia, Africa and South America, only to take the profits out with no concern for the social betterment of the countries, and say:
"This is not just."

It will look at our alliance with the landed gentry of Latin America and say: "This is not just." The Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just.

A true revolution of values will lay hands on the world order and say of war: "This way of settling differences is not just."

This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of people normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death." transcript

Martin Luther King, Jr. Addresses the March on Washington

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ConcernedCanuk

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Sun Apr-04-04 12:53 PM
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5. Has el pResidente ever talked in front of that many REAL people ?

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Well, I know the answer,

It also answers the question:

Are we safer now . . .

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Eroshan

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Sun Apr-04-04 11:55 AM
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3. I cried that day

and I tear up every time I hear the speech "I have a dream" and his own prophetic demise when he said "And I may not get there with you". What a great human being he was. For all the human frailties we all have how many rise above the fray to capture the vision of a people and others that would beat them down. What a person.....

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mia

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Sun Apr-04-04 12:41 PM
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4. Me too...

It's Sunday and there is no church in America standing up to the wrongs of this administration. I find solace in King's speeches.

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Art_from_Ark

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Sun Apr-04-04 02:35 PM
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6. In old Japan, it would have been a very scary date

since one of the words for "4" in Japanese, "shi", can also mean "death", while the native word for "zero", which is "rei", can also mean "spirit or ghost".

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twilight

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Sun Apr-04-04 02:39 PM
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7. God bless Martin Luther King (RIP)

May God keep him by his side always.

I miss him too ... :(

:dem: :kick:

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GreenPartyVoter

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Sun Apr-04-04 03:09 PM
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8. Weird about the numbers...

Edited on Sun Apr-04-04 03:10 PM by GreenPartyVoter

I wasn't around when MLK died, but have felt his presence in my lifetime anyway.

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grannyfran

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Sun Apr-04-04 03:56 PM
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9. Scarey then and now.

His words are as true today as they were then. As a young mother then, I cried when he died and worried what kind of a world my children would grow up in. Today I cry and worry for my grandchildren.

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