Good Martin Luther King Quote (Bin Laden Related)

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  • inmytree
    inmytree Posts: 4,741
    Byrnzie wrote:

    Um...serious journalists don't run 'quick Google searches' for their investigations. The quotation may have been pulled from any one of numerous speeches, articles, pamplets, or books by M.L.K.


    Anyway, as it happens it looks like the original posting - on Facebook - had an original comment, followed by this MLK quote. Presumably it was copied from status to status, and the quotation mark moved to erroneously include the whole post: http://i.imgur.com/cqtjw.jpg

    um...so the non-journalist who wrote the original piece was technically correct...?
  • inmytree
    inmytree Posts: 4,741
    facepollution wrote:
    inmytree wrote:
    High horse...yes

    So people are on their high horse because they are able to look at the bigger picture?

    this response is smug and high-horsey..."big-picture", huh...

    I guess it's easy to see the "big picture" when one is seated so high... :lol::lol:
  • facepollution
    facepollution Posts: 6,834
    inmytree wrote:
    facepollution wrote:
    inmytree wrote:
    High horse...yes

    So people are on their high horse because they are able to look at the bigger picture?

    this response is smug and high-horsey..."big-picture", huh...

    I guess it's easy to see the "big picture" when one is seated so high... :lol::lol:

    Oh please, if I was just being smug I wouldn't be taking the time to explain why I feel how I do. I think the 'big picture' is incredibly important, and to their credit the vast majority of family members of 9/11 victims I saw interviewed all expressed that.
  • fanch75
    fanch75 Posts: 3,734
    cincybearcat wrote:
    No kidding. This is was a great thing.

    I don't understand those that celebrated, and I think some just use any excuse to do that sort of thing (same reason you have people setting cars on fire after their team wins a championship). BUt it's gone a little over the top with the criticism here lately. I mean, how long did these "celebrations" last anyhow?

    What's up Cincybearcat? I see your old buddy Bob Huggins around town every once in a while.

    There was a supposed Mark Twain quote that was pretty good. Something like, "I don't wish death on anyone, but I get great joy occassionally out of reading the obituaries." Something like that.
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  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    http://www.salon.com/entertainment/tv/f ... sama_death

    http://i.imgur.com/cqtjw.jpg

    :lol::lol::lol:
  • inmytree
    inmytree Posts: 4,741
    facepollution wrote:
    Oh please, if I was just being smug I wouldn't be taking the time to explain why I feel how I do. I think the 'big picture' is incredibly important, and to their credit the vast majority of family members of 9/11 victims I saw interviewed all expressed that.

    I guess I should be honored that you're taking the time to explain things to little ol' me... :wave:

    anyhoo....when there is a "big picture" involved there is also a "little picture"...in this case, you and yours want to focus on the "big picture" (however you wish to define it), I guess others wanted to focus on the "little picture", which I'll define as "the here and now" a.k.a. the present...which here means; some felt compelled to take to the streets and display their view of the little picture....

    for me, that's not a bad thing....I guess I may not be part of the "vast majority" you claim to have intimate knowledge of...again, I don't think that's a bad thing...

    and for the record, I personally did not take to the streets...however have no problem with those who did...
  • facepollution
    facepollution Posts: 6,834
    inmytree wrote:
    I guess I should be honored that you're taking the time to explain things to little ol' me... :wave:

    anyhoo....when there is a "big picture" involved there is also a "little picture"...in this case, you and yours want to focus on the "big picture" (however you wish to define it), I guess others wanted to focus on the "little picture", which I'll define as "the here and now" a.k.a. the present...which here means; some felt compelled to take to the streets and display their view of the little picture....

    for me, that's not a bad thing....I guess I may not be part of the "vast majority" you claim to have intimate knowledge of...again, I don't think that's a bad thing...

    and for the record, I personally did not take to the streets...however have no problem with those who did...

    Paint me to be whoever you want, you haven't grasped what I'm saying at all, but that's ok.
  • cajunkiwi
    cajunkiwi Posts: 984
    fanch75 wrote:
    cincybearcat wrote:
    No kidding. This is was a great thing.

    I don't understand those that celebrated, and I think some just use any excuse to do that sort of thing (same reason you have people setting cars on fire after their team wins a championship). BUt it's gone a little over the top with the criticism here lately. I mean, how long did these "celebrations" last anyhow?

    What's up Cincybearcat? I see your old buddy Bob Huggins around town every once in a while.

    There was a supposed Mark Twain quote that was pretty good. Something like, "I don't wish death on anyone, but I get great joy occassionally out of reading the obituaries." Something like that.

    Appropriately enough for this discussion about what MLK said/didn't say, that quote didn't come from Mark Twain - it came from Clarence Darrow
    And I listen for the voice inside my head... nothing. I'll do this one myself.
  • inmytree
    inmytree Posts: 4,741
    facepollution wrote:
    inmytree wrote:
    I guess I should be honored that you're taking the time to explain things to little ol' me... :wave:

    anyhoo....when there is a "big picture" involved there is also a "little picture"...in this case, you and yours want to focus on the "big picture" (however you wish to define it), I guess others wanted to focus on the "little picture", which I'll define as "the here and now" a.k.a. the present...which here means; some felt compelled to take to the streets and display their view of the little picture....

    for me, that's not a bad thing....I guess I may not be part of the "vast majority" you claim to have intimate knowledge of...again, I don't think that's a bad thing...

    and for the record, I personally did not take to the streets...however have no problem with those who did...

    Paint me to be whoever you want, you haven't grasped what I'm saying at all, but that's ok.

    I can say the same... :D
  • facepollution
    facepollution Posts: 6,834
    inmytree wrote:
    I can say the same... :D

    I haven't painted you as anything. All I did was defend my point of view because you accused me of being smug, which I am not.
  • inmytree
    inmytree Posts: 4,741
    facepollution wrote:
    inmytree wrote:
    I can say the same... :D

    I haven't painted you as anything. All I did was defend my point of view because you accused me of being smug, which I am not.

    if you say so...
  • LikeAnOcean
    LikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/social.med ... tml?hpt=T2
  • Gary Carter
    Gary Carter Posts: 14,077
    Gob wrote:
    http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/social.media/05/03/quotes.twain.mlk/index.html?hpt=T2

    :lol::lol::lol:


    http://www.theatlantic.com/national/arc ... on/238257/


    :lol::lol::lol:
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  • Idris
    Idris Posts: 2,317
    metsfan wrote:
    Gob wrote:
    http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/social.media/05/03/quotes.twain.mlk/index.html?hpt=T2

    :lol::lol::lol:


    http://www.theatlantic.com/national/arc ... on/238257/


    :lol::lol::lol:

    I never touched this quote, so this is my first time entering this conversation regarding it.

    I wonder two things, do you think because King did not say it, the words lose its meaning? and two, why are you taking so much satisfaction in seeing other people being proven wrong?

    But I guess that's what they mean by 'Power of Pride'

    We really need to move forward as a people. Out beyond ideas of wrong-doing and right-doing,
    there is a field. I'll meet you there.

    Everyone makes mistakes, this is the nature of life. We live, we learn. Education is highly important. You providing the info on the quote was perfect, but your ego surely has done you wrong in other matters.
  • LikeAnOcean
    LikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    MrAbraham wrote:
    metsfan wrote:
    Gob wrote:
    http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/social.media/05/03/quotes.twain.mlk/index.html?hpt=T2

    :lol::lol::lol:


    http://www.theatlantic.com/national/arc ... on/238257/


    :lol::lol::lol:

    I never touched this quote, so this is my first time entering this conversation regarding it.

    I wonder two things, do you think because King did not say it, the words lose its meaning? and two, why are you taking so much satisfaction in seeing other people being proven wrong?

    But I guess that's what they mean by 'Power of Pride'

    We really need to move forward as a people. Out beyond ideas of wrong-doing and right-doing,
    there is a field. I'll meet you there.

    Everyone makes mistakes, this is the nature of life. We live, we learn. Education is highly important. You providing the info on the quote was perfect, but your ego surely has done you wrong in other matters.
    If you are talking to me, I agree 100% with the quote. I was a dumbass who put it on facebook.
    I learned of the quote here. I guess I shouldn't search for facts from a message board.


    Whoever said it though, it's a good quote with a lot of meaning.
  • Gary Carter
    Gary Carter Posts: 14,077
    MrAbraham wrote:

    I never touched this quote, so this is my first time entering this conversation regarding it.

    I wonder two things, do you think because King did not say it, the words lose its meaning? and two, why are you taking so much satisfaction in seeing other people being proven wrong?

    But I guess that's what they mean by 'Power of Pride'

    We really need to move forward as a people. Out beyond ideas of wrong-doing and right-doing,
    there is a field. I'll meet you there.

    Everyone makes mistakes, this is the nature of life. We live, we learn. Education is highly important. You providing the info on the quote was perfect, but your ego surely has done you wrong in other matters.

    cause dude that lameass quote was all over twitter and facebook by people trying come off like they are peaceful and other bullshit. it just reeks of fakeness by people. that's why i'm laughing at it. i'm also laughing at cause it was a disgrace for someone to use the letters MLK and try to pass it off as a quote from MLK.
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  • Digital Twilight
    Digital Twilight Posts: 5,642
    metsfan wrote:
    MrAbraham wrote:

    I never touched this quote, so this is my first time entering this conversation regarding it.

    I wonder two things, do you think because King did not say it, the words lose its meaning? and two, why are you taking so much satisfaction in seeing other people being proven wrong?

    But I guess that's what they mean by 'Power of Pride'

    We really need to move forward as a people. Out beyond ideas of wrong-doing and right-doing,
    there is a field. I'll meet you there.

    Everyone makes mistakes, this is the nature of life. We live, we learn. Education is highly important. You providing the info on the quote was perfect, but your ego surely has done you wrong in other matters.

    cause dude that lameass quote was all over twitter and facebook by people trying come off like they are peaceful and other bullshit. it just reeks of fakeness by people. that's why i'm laughing at it. i'm also laughing at cause it was a disgrace for someone to use the letters MLK and try to pass it off as a quote from MLK.

    So people believe in something other than violence and that makes them fake? :roll:
  • Gary Carter
    Gary Carter Posts: 14,077
    edited May 2011
    Digital Twilight wrote:


    So people believe in something other than violence and that makes them fake? :roll:
    sure does. cause i bet those same people were all gun ho when the us invaded afghanistan and driving around with those lameass support our troops car magnets and were proud to be americans. :roll:
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  • Idris
    Idris Posts: 2,317
    metsfan wrote:
    MrAbraham wrote:

    I never touched this quote, so this is my first time entering this conversation regarding it.

    I wonder two things, do you think because King did not say it, the words lose its meaning? and two, why are you taking so much satisfaction in seeing other people being proven wrong?

    But I guess that's what they mean by 'Power of Pride'

    We really need to move forward as a people. Out beyond ideas of wrong-doing and right-doing,
    there is a field. I'll meet you there.

    Everyone makes mistakes, this is the nature of life. We live, we learn. Education is highly important. You providing the info on the quote was perfect, but your ego surely has done you wrong in other matters.

    cause dude that lameass quote was all over twitter and facebook by people trying come off like they are peaceful and other bullshit. it just reeks of fakeness by people. that's why i'm laughing at it. i'm also laughing at cause it was a disgrace for someone to use the letters MLK and try to pass it off as a quote from MLK.

    It's alright my friend, we should not let our surroundings influence us negatively. No matter what is being said, or whatever amount we may think someone reeks. We have to try our best to always remain constant, in the truth. Key in education and the spreading of knowledge.

    Nothing more than a smile and a gentle word, for people who understand. We must deal with what is in our own hearts. We know not what is deep within others.
  • Gary Carter
    Gary Carter Posts: 14,077
    MrAbraham wrote:

    It's alright my friend, we should not let our surroundings influence us negatively. No matter what is being said, or whatever amount we may think someone reeks. We have to try our best to always remain constant, in the truth. Key in education and the spreading of knowledge.

    Nothing more than a smile and a gentle word, for people who understand.
    your 100% right and we should also not be sheeps and more free thinkers here in america
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