Martin Luther King Jr. Day Monday 1/20/2020 – the 25th anniversary since 1986 commemorates this Civil Rights leader’s birthday and legacy. Individuals are empowered to devote a day of service volunteering to improve their community by bridging barriers, creating solutions to social problems.
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Presidential Impeachment Trial
.....beginning Tuesday, January 21, 2020
The profound quotes below were said or written by Dr. King in contexts different from that to which I am associating them here. I think these words can be interpreted to have special significance now as our U.S. Senate begins consideration of the Impeachment of our President Donald J. Trump. (Quotes attributed to Dr. King at Keep Inspiring Me)
“Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice
and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that
block the flow of social progress.”
“There comes a time when one must take a position that is
neither safe nor politic or popular, but he must take it because his conscience
will tell him it is right.”
“The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of
justice.”
“That old law about ‘an eye for an eye’ leaves everybody
blind. The time is always right to do
the right thing.”
“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere
ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
“Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.”
“A lie cannot live.”
“We must use time creatively in the knowledge the time is always
ripe to do right.”
“We may all have come
on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.”
National Public Radio (NPR) describes How The Impeachment Trial Will Work which begins Tuesday, January 15, 2020.
He was way before this crisis but his words do fit the time. Well done Joared.
ReplyDeleteThese are all important and wise quotes. We were lucky to have him when we did!!
ReplyDelete"An eye for an eye leaves everyone blind". Indeed. Retaliation seldom achieves anything except bitterness. It was a sad day when Martin Luther King was assassinated.
ReplyDeleteI hope the impeachment succeeds.
I agree with Patti. I'm feeling pretty fatalistic about the outcome though since Republican senators have already made up their minds what they'll vote, not matter what evidence is presented.
ReplyDeleteI don't feel at all positive about the process and feel the stench of corruption from way up here. He's gotten away with far too much already. I feel the rules of law are forever sullied.
ReplyDeleteWe are not escaping it up here either on my island province and I must write about it soon.Our pols also get away with astounding and flagrant breach of trust and outright corruption and cronyism.
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