Charlie Rose

SharkswithfrikingLazers  03/01/2013 04:47 PM Report

King's often repeated expression that "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice" was his own succinct summation of sentiments echoing those of Theodore Parker, who, in "Of Justice and the Conscience" (1853) asserted: "I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight; I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice."

GREAT PHOTO: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/File:Thanksgiving_chapel_interior.jpg

finalfantasytown  03/01/2013 05:13 AM Report

why did you go to the moon? Do you want something?

finalfantasytown  03/01/2013 04:52 AM Report

Gaia, you should hurry up to locate the mountains. I need to find out the reason for the conspiracy of Athena, Hera, and Poseidon to chain Zeus. Once you make the location, I make cave and stay inside. I mean I will search for the opening of cave. I know you won't prefer exposing your defect. Then I make a pause and use some material to cover the opening. No one touch it. If somebody touched it, he had to be fully responsible for the whole consequence. Horrible consequence. One reason is I will be waiting for Qin Shihuang to finish his mission which is to physiologically realize eternal life. Another reason is I come up with an idea to realize Jesus after watching movie 'Das Leben der Anderen'. I want to know why there are four major blood types for human. Here, I think I have very little understanding about stem cell differentiation. Are there additional blood types? Come with me. Let's find Jesus. Maybe I am. I will be honored to lead. Gaia, you should hurry up!

The whole map is almost there. What are you waiting for?

SharkswithfrikingLazers  02/28/2013 04:51 PM Report

'If you (Martin Luther King) had sneezed during all those hours of waiting,' Dr. Maynard said, 'your aorta would have been punctured and you would have drowned in your own blood.'"[3]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izola_Curry

From almost dying by the hand of a crazy black woman to dying by the hand of a crazy white man all in a decade.

A decade that changed the world and perhaps made it better for all time.

REMant  02/28/2013 11:51 AM Report

I still cannot believe that a president of this country can, more than two centuries after the Declaration of Independence, act and speak as if that independence didn't arrive until women and blacks got the vote, and adopt the attitude that the mantle of abolitionist righteousness has devolved upon him. Who does he think he is?! If there was any hope he could still command the confidence of the half-nation who didn't vote for him, he dashed it in that tirade.

Lincoln didn't believe the kind of garbage being handed out nowadays, and neither did King. This won't make us purple; only redder and bluer.

Mr Branch, is nearly the same age as I, and, although it can't be said I grew up in the "Deep South," it was deep enough, and I had enough contact with colored people, as we called them then, to know that, altho they have all the rights and, then some, of their compatriots, and while most have advanced and integrated into American society, many are worse off now than they were in King's time, because their own society has so far disintegrated.

The Civil War was not entirely about this anyway, and the old textbooks were not that far off. One can easily consider the probable resurrection of Southern society to be something, which, like the fall of Saddam Hussein, these saints should have anticipated before they began pressing for annihilation and reconstruction. As I said, it probably set the cause of real independence back a very long way.

I would think, too, that jazz, rock and roll, and sports - the Goodman's, Presley's, and Rickey's - had a much greater influence in bringing about integration than King or any of these marches and sit-ins, however appealing and gratifying to the philanthropic mind.

Mr Branch should perhaps consider James Weldon Johnson's remarks as well.