Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King
Posted by Michelle Moquin on January 17th, 2011
Good morning!
Martin Luther King Jr. Day is Monday, honoring one the greatest civil rights leaders of all time.
Celebrated this year on January 17, 2011, the holiday falls on the third Monday of January every year, right around King’s birthday, which is January 15. King would have been 82 this year.
His “I Have A Dream” speech was recited on August 28, 1963 during the March on Washington. King spoke in front of the Lincoln Memorial.
Perhaps the most famous of King’s speeches, the repetition “I have a dream” resonated with marches and became a symbol of civil rights. The speech was initially titles “Normalcy, Never Again,” but as King became more and more impassioned, he began to “preach” continuously repeating the phrase.
One can never see Dr. King’s “I have a dream” speech too many times:
- Somehow this madness must cease. We must stop now. I speak as a child of God and brother to the suffering poor of Vietnam. I speak for those whose land is being laid waste, whose homes are being destroyed, whose culture is being subverted. I speak for the poor in America who are paying the double price of smashed hopes at home and death and corruption in Vietnam. I speak as a citizen of the world, for the world as it stands aghast at the path we have taken. I speak as an American to the leaders of my own nation. The great initiative in this war is ours. The initiative to stop it must be ours.
I Have a Dream, 1963.
Readers: I wrote my write last night as I have a very full day and I wanted to sleep in. Only I didn’t. I woke up suddenly as if something terrible had happened. The “terrible something” was that I forgot it was Martin Luther King Day. Being self-employed, most any noted holiday is a working holiday for me, including weekends when I am busy with clients.
So, to all you early birds who read my write early….yes I woke up, and had to change my write that I had already had set last night to publish at 6:00 am. My apologies. I am only one person: The writer, the proofreader, the editor. And yes, I do make mistakes.
That being said, I have never changed my entire write after it has been published. But there is no way that I could let the day go by and not honor Dr. King. Absolutely not. He was an amazing, courageous, inspiring man whose words are just as important now as they ever were. As I watch his historical speech every year, I always find myself with tears rolling down my face…I am so moved…and yes…I am still so HOPEful. Now is the time…
Could there be any better?
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Greprom: I do not doubt that we are electrical beings. I wouldn’t have stated the title of my blog as such if I did doubt you. I stated here that we have been told this via the aliens, and I will also state that in private, I have been informed too.
I do understand what you were saying. I understand that Earthlings are electrical and that everything we eat, drink and breathe is electrical, as you stated. But somewhere in my reading I decided to neglect the fact that you brought the Earthlings to your chemical universe which was the reason you had provide them with the ”correct electrically charged foods, liquids, etc.” in the first place, which lead to your discovery of our lasting indefinitely.
And in my haste, I meant to ask if we had to do something here on Earth to “correct” our electrically charged foods etc., Obviously not chemically, which is what is screwing us up in the first place. My misunderstanding – thanks Robert for pointing that out so I could clarify.
So really, the question is, can we find food…food that is available, that doesn’t have all of the toxins in it? We buy meat from a private sustainable farm with free range grass fed cows. I try to eat organic as much as I can, and stay away from packaged foods. I am aware of the toxins that are in much of our food, and I feel that I pay close attention to what I eat, so that I am eating as few toxic foods as I can. Yet, what is really pure anymore? Even if you grown your own fruits and vegetables and raise your own meat – What about our water and air quality? Toxic.
Water is a big problem. Unless a person has a water filter we are poisoning our bodies when we shower and bathe. So what if you’re drinking purified watered – you’re bathing in toxic water. We drink gallons of water through our bodies during this time. And we think we are cleaning ourselves when we are really poisoning ourselves. And the hotter the water, the worse it is for us, as toxins turn into poisonous gases that we then breathe in.
And as far as air quality…forget about it. There is no pure non-toxic air that I know of.
Noris: Thank you for clarifying, but I do understand that old age is not a disease. However there was a time when we didn’t have preservatives and toxins in our food, and the water and air was pure. Yet, we didn’t live to be a thousand years old. Our biggest enemy back then was the natural elements. I guess I was more curious as to what a thousand year old healthy person visually looked like. :)
So back to you Grepron: I know today we really don’t have much of a chance for eating “correct” electrically charged foods. So going back a long time ago, when the air was fine and so was the water, what combination of food would have been the proper balance so that we could’ve survived longer than we did? Did we just really we just need the proper balance of foods?
As much as I am interested, I guess that question really doesn’t matter because we can’t go back to that time when air and water were pure. And as you stated, once our food has been exposed to chemicals it cannot be made electrically correct again. Still…what would be your answer? Obviously I am not the only one who is curious.
So…on another note, we may not last “indefinitely” because of the toxins, but we can last forever one way: Cloning. If we perfect cloning we could last forever. That is as long as we are able to replace “every” part of our bodies.
That’s my two. What do you have to add? Blog me.
ZL: I hope that your parties were fun and Lily had a great birthday! Tuesday is my one free day that I will be in my office. I’ll call you.
PEACE OUT.
Lastly, greed over a great story is surfacing from my “loyal”(?) readers. With all this back and forth about who owns what, that appears on my blog, let me reiterate that all material posted on my blog becomes the sole property of my blog. If you want to reserve any proprietary rights don’t post it to my blog. I will prominently display this caveat on my blog from now on to remind those who may have forgotten this notice.
Gratefully your blog host,
michelle
Aka BABE: We all know what this means by now :)
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January 17th, 2011 at 8:51 am
I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him. I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
January 17th, 2011 at 5:53 pm
Hi Mischa, and I will be in my office after 9:30, calllll me on my cellular telephone : ) Luv, ZL
January 17th, 2011 at 7:11 pm
Just wanted to share a quote I came across today, in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King:
“Last week we saw a white Catholic male Republican judge murdered on his way to greet a Democratic Jewish woman member of Congress, who was his friend. Her life was saved initially by a 20-year-old Mexican-American gay college student, and eventually by a Korean American combat surgeon, and this all was eulogized by our African American President.”