Where The Hell Am I?: Martin Luther King

Saturday, April 5, 2008

Late Korea Time, But Not Late US Time

"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death."
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"I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word."
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"The time is always right to do what is right."

Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr. who was assassinated 40 years ago on March 4th.

Martin Luther King, "Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam":

A full transcript of this speech: Martin Luther King Jr.: "Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam"

Lift Every Voice and Sing - the black American anthem

I saw this posted over at Hikaruland, and, well, I copied it. But I'm giving credit where credit is due ;)

Happy Birthday Dr. King, (I'm still on time 'cause we're a day ahead in South Korea.)

The lyrics. I admit I looked it up because I only know the chorus.

Lift every voice and sing, till earth and Heaven ring,
Ring with the harmonies of liberty;
Let our rejoicing rise, high as the listening skies,
Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.
Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us,
Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us;
Facing the rising sun of our new day begun,
Let us march on till victory is won.

Stony the road we trod, bitter the chastening rod,
Felt in the days when hope unborn had died;
Yet with a steady beat, have not our weary feet,
Come to the place for which our fathers sighed?
We have come over a way that with tears has been watered,
We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered;
Out from the gloomy past, till now we stand at last
Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast.

God of our weary years, God of our silent tears,
Thou Who hast brought us thus far on the way;
Thou Who hast by Thy might, led us into the light,
Keep us forever in the path, we pray.
Lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where we met Thee.
Lest our hearts, drunk with the wine of the world, we forget Thee.
Shadowed beneath Thy hand, may we forever stand,
True to our God, true to our native land.