The Aerie
In these oppressive days of Neoconservative ascendancy, nothing seems more timely than Martin Luther King day. Firedoglake has a number of quotes for those who just can't see what all the fuss is about in D.C. these days.
Contributor ReddHedd closes with this quote of her own: "I'm often asked why I started blogging. One reason is that I want my child to grow up in a nation that matches its actions to the soaring hopes of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The time came when my silence seemed a betrayal."
(I can't claim such laudable goals - I started blogging because a columnist and a pornstar were doing it, and I figured I could too.)
So in honor of ReddHedd and her dream on Martin Luther King Day the quote for today, never more timely, is
"We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people." -Dr. Martin Luther King, Letter from Birmingham Jail.
And if you haven't read it in a year, then it's about time to review Dr. King's "I Have a Dream" speech. Nothing is so damning an indictment of the Right Wing than that it assassinates our best and brightest in order to silence them. From Lincoln to the Kennedy brothers, to King, to Rabin, the tactic of these smug, self-righteous, holier-than-thou conservatives is to crawl under a rock with a weapon and deliver death.
And yet the dreams live on, demonstrating that there is no power greater than an idea whose time has come.
Not even death.
Posted by Albatross at January 16, 2006 10:01 AM | TrackBack