From: "Mark" 

Of course I still agree Rich, civil disobedience is part of an effort
toward peaceful change. That said, just because I agree with his methods
doesn't mean I support every position he every took on any given subject.


"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
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> "Mark"  wrote in message
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>> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
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>>>> "Gary Britt" 
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>>>>> Hillary said to a BLACK audience ...
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>>>> I thought you'd done away with segregation?
>>>>
>>>>
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>>> Well Gary has now outed those closet blacks in attendance Mayor Michael
>>> Bloomberg  and Republican state attorney general candidate Jeanine Pirro
>>> .
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>>> Seriously the speech was given in a Harlem church on the M. L. King
>>> holiday and the audience was primarily black
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>> It was a celebration honoring MLK who dedicated, and ultimately gave, his
>> life in an effort at peaceful change to real equality for blacks and
>> other minorites -- and did so successfully.
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>> To bring up "plantations from the past" in such a
setting is beyond
>> callous. To then not apologize for same after the fact is beyond
>> puzzling. On the bright side, she's proven that she's not presidential
>> material.
>>
>
> MLK also believed in the tactics of civil disobedience to sway public
> opinion including an anti-war stance. Still in agreement with his views?
> 
>
> http://www.africanamericans.com/MLKjrBeyondVietnam.htm
>
> We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent
> coannihilation. We must move past indecision to action. We must find new
> ways to speak for peace in Vietnam and justice throughout the developing
> world, a world that borders on our doors. If we do not act, we shall
> surely be dragged down the long, dark, and shameful corridors of time
> reserved for those who possess power without compassion, might without
> morality, and strength without sight.
>
> Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter,
> but beautiful, struggle for a new world. This is the calling of the sons
> of God, and our brothers wait eagerly for our response. Shall we say the
> odds are too great? Shall we tell them the struggle is too hard? Will our
> message be that the forces of American life militate against their arrival
> as full men, and we send our deepest regrets? Or will there be another
> message-of longing, of hope, of solidarity with their yearnings, of
> commitment to their cause, whatever the cost? The choice is ours, and
> though we might prefer it otherwise, we must choose in this crucial moment
> of human history.
>
> As that noble bard of yesterday, James Russell Lowell, eloquently stated:
>
> Once to every man and nation comes a moment to decide, In the strife of
> Truth and Falsehood, for the good or evil side; Some great cause, God's
> new Messiah offering each the bloom or blight, And the choice goes by
> forever 'twixt that darkness and that light. Though the cause of evil
> prosper, yet 'tis truth alone is strong Though her portions be the
> scaffold, and upon the throne be wrong Yet that scaffold sways the future,
> and behind the dim unknown Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch
> above his own.
>
> And if we will only make the right choice, we will be able to transform
> this pending cosmic elegy into a creative psalm of peace. If we will make
> the right choice, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of
> our world into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. If we will but make
> the right choice, we will be able to speed up the day, all over America
> and all over the world, when justice will roll down like waters, and
> righteousness like a mighty stream.
>

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