Martin Luther King, Jr., was the conscience of his generation.... He and I grew up in the same South, he the son of a clergyman, I... the son of a farmer. We both knew from opposite sides, the invisible wall of racial segregation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is cheering to note that [Martin] Luther (1524) did not see why schools should not be fun as well: "Now since the young must le...ap and jump, or have something to do, because they have a natural desire for it which should not be restrained (for it is not well to check them in everything) why should we not provide for them such schools, and lay before them such studies?"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Martin Pawley: Do ya think maybe's there's a chance we still might find her? Ethan Edwards: Injun'll chase a thing 'til he th...inks he's chased it enough. Then he quits. Same way when he runs. Seems like he never learns there's such a thing as a critter that'll just keep comin' on. So we'll find 'em in the end. I promise ya. We'll find 'em, just as sure as the turnin' of the earth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
How comes it that you curse, Frere Jean? It's only, said the monk, in order to embellish my language. They are the colors of Cicer...onian rhetoric.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Martin, a woman hasn't got any political opinions. I run this farm to suit myself. I'll shoot the daylights out of anybody--Britis...h, Indian or American--that thinks he can come around here monkeyin' in my business. That satisfy ya?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The star is the ultimate American verification of Jean Jacques Rousseau's Emile. His mere existence proves the perfectability of a...ny man or woman. Oh wonderful pliability of human nature, in a society where anyone can become a celebrity! And where any celebrity ... may become a star!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For mainstream American blacks, the vast majority of churches have Hebrew names--Ebenezer, Mount Zion, Canaan, Mount Moriah, Taber...nacle, New Hebron, Mount Olive. Hebraic traditions run deep in the black church. More than any people on earth, including the Jews, American blacks have adopted the Mosaic model of social organization, with the exalted political prophet bonded to the "children of Israel" below. Blacks and Jews have in common a history of cyclical swings between cultural separatism and assimilation. Black Zionists helped establish an independent Liberia in 1847, some fifty years before the emergence of modern Jewish Zionism. Jews, who have canonized no new prophets in two millennia and who shudder at the memory of their false messiahs, look with both longing and horror upon the last generation's procession of black prophets: Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., Louis Farrakhan, and Jesse Jackson. Depending on one's prediction of the outcome, blacks and Jews are either intimate enemies or quarrelsome cousins.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I know [my label], in any case: a double face, a charming Janus, and underneath, the house motto: "Be wary". On my business cards:... "Jean-Baptiste Clamence, actor".LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When that devil's bullet lodged itself inside the body of Martin Luther King, he had already begun an astonishing mobilization of ...poor, Black, white, latino Americans who had nothing to lose. They would challenge our government to eliminate exploitative, merciless, and war-mongering policies, nationwide, or else "tie up the country" through "means of civil disobedience." Dr. King intended to organize those legions into "coercive direct actions" that would make of Babylon a dysfunctional behemoth begging for relief. Is it any wonder he was killed?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »