Instant Karma's Gonna Get You....


The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., March on Washington, Aug. 28, 1963.
"Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity.

But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. So we have come here today to dramatize an appalling condition.

This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all of God's children. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood."

People Get Ready :: Curtis Mayfield ::
The March On Washington :: NPR ::

Racial equality lives within each one of us, no-one is born with hate, it is taught - peace.
( M3Essential - Lens Flare ! Fuck Yeah !, Thu 28 Aug 2003, 18:44, archived)

you trying to make me go blind with all that small text?

( Mond, Thu 28 Aug 2003, 18:45, archived)

ha!

( 5olly, Thu 28 Aug 2003, 18:45, archived)

Curtis
may want people to buy that record you know
(Mattyboy, Thu 28 Aug 2003, 18:45, archived)

curtis is alive
he is paralysed though, after a rigging light fell on him. Curtis am di best
( mrbongo sweating like a formicophiliac on I'm a celebrity, Thu 28 Aug 2003, 18:48, archived)

changed my name just for you
hmmmmph
( Scary Mary The D'oh Fairy, Thu 28 Aug 2003, 18:48, archived)

What
we're married?
(Mattyboy, Thu 28 Aug 2003, 18:49, archived)

listen, enjoy, go out and buy...
.
( M3Essential - Lens Flare ! Fuck Yeah !, Thu 28 Aug 2003, 18:48, archived)

If it were any of my repertoire
I'd take a rather different view.
(Mattyboy, Thu 28 Aug 2003, 18:50, archived)

soo...
much...
small..
text...

If I make the effort to read it, will it amuse me or bore me? (Just so I know what I'm getting into beforehand...
( LP, Thu 28 Aug 2003, 18:46, archived)

Do you not get the significance of this day?
Or wha?
( Scoopzilla is like, the Godzilla of scooping on, Thu 28 Aug 2003, 18:52, archived)

Nope Sorry
As far as I know, today is thursday.

Is it international post-loads-of-realy-small-text-that-LP-can't-be-bothered-to-read-because-he's-spent-all-day-filling-out-forms day?
( LP, Thu 28 Aug 2003, 19:02, archived)

No...
Today is the day that Martin Luther King Jr. stood up in front of the Abraham Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC and gave one of the greatest speeches of all time.

"I have a dream..."
( Scoopzilla is like, the Godzilla of scooping on, Thu 28 Aug 2003, 19:10, archived)

Oh
that's nice.

*goes back to his chocolate biscuits*
( LP, Thu 28 Aug 2003, 19:22, archived)

Thought provoking and
insightive as usual Gary.

Absolutely marvelous.
( Scoopzilla is like, the Godzilla of scooping on, Thu 28 Aug 2003, 18:51, archived)