I think this is quite true

tmccarthy0 — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:18:23 +0000

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I think this is quite true acanuk... soon they will all be here. Good! Almost all my facebook friends follow read DAG now, and of course I chide them when they don't.

Decoy, I believe you take the

acanuck — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:31:14 +0000

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Decoy, I believe you take the honor of leading the coming wave of TPM refugees. Stick around; this could get interesting. (Not that dagblog isn't already interesting, of course.)

Thanks Wolf . . . I've missed

oldenGoldenDecoy — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:02:35 +0000

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Thanks Wolf . . .

I've missed your scribblings over at the coffee tables.

I was but a wee lad of 17 when that speech was delivered.

To say it changed my path in life would be an understatement.

And then four short years later, while serving in the US Navy, I was fortunate enough to have heard in person another one of the prophet's speeches. The following is a short snippet:

I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.

A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies. On the one hand we are called to play the good Samaritan on life's roadside; but that will be only an initial act. 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 as they make their journey on life's highway. 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.

A Time to Break the Silence - 4 April 1967

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2564.htm

~OGD~

ps: Thanks for the space Genghis . . .

Thanks for this, Wolfie. And

Doctor Cleveland — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:40:34 +0000

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Thanks for this, Wolfie.

And Beck's traveling clown show can't tarnish Dr. King's legacy, any more than Beck's appropriation of the Founders can tarnish the Declaration of Independence. King is much too far above Beck for that.

I came expecting Glenn Beck

Orlando — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 18:24:17 +0000

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I came expecting Glenn Beck snark. But you know what? Fuck Glenn Beck.

MLK's speech is as important today as it was on the day he gave it. Thanks, Wolfie.

You have a dream, Wolfie. A

acanuck — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 06:38:27 +0000

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You have a dream, Wolfie. A dream.

Damn good speech, though.

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I think this is quite true

Decoy, I believe you take the

Thanks Wolf . . . I've missed

Thanks for this, Wolfie. And

I came expecting Glenn Beck

You have a dream, Wolfie. A