Freedom for all
Free at last, free at last, thank God all mighty I'm free at last. MLK
"We are all tied together in a single garment of destiny....I can never be what I ought to be until you are allowed to be what you ought to be. I've always felt that homophobic attitudes and policies were unjust and unworthy of a free society and must be opposed by all Americans who believe in democracy." Coretta Scott King
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| 1966: King was a student of Mahatma Gandhi's extraordinarily successful non-violent methods of civil protest, and adopted them as a staunch theme of the American civil rights movement. |
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| 1960: In Atlanta, at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference convention. |
The curse of poverty
has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as
the practice of cannibalism at the dawn of
civilization, when men ate each other because they had not yet learned to take food from the soil or to consume the abundant
animal life around them. The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.
Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967.
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| 1964: Walking to church with his family. |
be the guide and the critic of the state, and never its tool. If the church does not recapture its prophetic zeal, it will become an
irrelevant social club without moral or spiritual authority.
Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963
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| 1965: The watershed march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. |
violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge,
aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
Martin Luther King, Jr., Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Stockholm, Sweden, December 11, 1964.
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1963: Addressing the huge gathering at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom |
security of being identified with the majority.
Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963.
spiritual death.
Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967
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It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty
important.
Martin Luther King, Jr., Wall Street Journal, November 13, 1962.
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"If we have the courage to decide for peace, we will have peace." (Albert Einstein, 1879 - 1955)
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"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." (Albert Einstein, 1879 - 1955)
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"Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth." (Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR), 1882 - 1945)
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"If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace." (FDR)
"A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues."
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"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be. ...When the press is free and every man can read, all is safe." (Thomas Jefferson, 1743 - 1826)
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"I wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth. ... Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all." (George Washington, 1732 - 1799)
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"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe." (Albert Einstein, 1879 -
To my friends and family
of the GLBT community, someday freedom shall be had by all peoples and
discrimination will no longer be a political platform to stand on to
win elections based on fear and hate. ADP
Where else but the New York city Pride Parade could you see, a Mayor, Cops, Senator and Warrior??
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"Some men spend a lifetime in an attempt to comprehend the complexities of women. Others pre-occupy themselves with somewhat simpler tasks, such as understanding the theory of relativity!"
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"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity." (Albert Einstein, 1879 - 1955)
  The Notre-Dame Affair (1950)The Notre-Dame Affair was an anti-Catholic intervention performed by radical members of the Lettrist movement on Easter Sunday, 1950. During a quiet moment in the Easter High Mass, Michel Mourre, disguised as a Dominican monk, climbed to the rostrum and declaimed a blasphemous anti-sermon on the death of God. The proclamation was heard not only by the thousands of faithful present at the mass but also by hundreds of thousands of TV viewers. Who saved Mourre from the angry Christian mob? More... |