**heh, just thought I'd bring this back up today**

 

I was just thinking about what if I was born during the civil war times and thinking about how so many wars were fought over laws and taxes and how many people had to die because of it. And then I thought, as I've thought before that I would never fight in a war for such a thing. That's when I realized what a great leader Martin Luther King was.

 

I don't want to sound like I'm bashing white people or prejudice people, I just wanted to appreciate a man who died for a cause and never lifted a finger on the people that killed him. Yet he changed the world we live in. I just wanted to appreciate him and let people know about it.

good words eric!

for this you deserve a cookie. :idea2:

 

an excellent man he was, one of the greatest men ever to live.

is it wrong to bash prejudice people??? I think it should be a national holiday to bash prejudice people.. lol

Yeah,he was a great man!!!!!

:P

i'm from argentina so i don't really know what martind luther king did.....i'd loveto know though,so if anyone explains it to me it'd be great

 

thanks

agreed,but there're a lot of persons who changed the world with actions or inventions for example,he was one of them.he's one of the greatest,that's true.

i'm from argentina so i don't really know what martind luther king did.....i'd loveto know though,so if anyone explains it to me it'd be great

 

thanks

 

MLK was one of the best people to ever grace this planet. There will never be another like him. He stood for everything a human being should stand for. Nonviolence. Love. Peace. Unity. Justice. Respect. He was incredibly, and a genius orator. Everyone needs to study him, I believe, regardless of what country you come from.

 

Needless to say, he's one of my heros.

 

Hope this helps you out, maiu! :) :

 

Martin Luther King, Jr., (January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968) was born Michael Luther King, Jr., but later had his name changed to Martin. His grandfather began the family's long tenure as pastors of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, serving from 1914 to 1931; his father has served from then until the present, and from 1960 until his death Martin Luther acted as co-pastor. Martin Luther attended segregated public schools in Georgia, graduating from high school at the age of fifteen; he received the B. A. degree in 1948 from Morehouse College, a distinguished Negro institution of Atlanta from which both his father and grandfather had been graduated. After three years of theological study at Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania where he was elected president of a predominantly white senior class, he was awarded the B.D. in 1951. With a fellowship won at Crozer, he enrolled in graduate studies at Boston University, completing his residence for the doctorate in 1953 and receiving the degree in 1955 In Boston he met and married Coretta Scott, a young woman of uncommon intellectual and artistic attainments. Two sons and two daughters were born into the family.

 

In 1954, Martin Luther King accepted the pastorale of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Always a strong worker for civil rights for members of his race, King was, by this time, a member of the executive committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the leading organization of its kind in the nation. He was ready, then, early in December, 1955, to accept the leadership of the first great Negro nonviolent demonstration of contemporary times in the United States, the bus boycott described by Gunnar Jahn in his presentation speech in honor of the laureate. The boycott lasted 382 days. On December 21, 1956, after the Supreme Court of the United States had declared unconstitutional the laws requiring segregation on buses, Negroes and whites rode the buses as equals. During these days of boycott, King was arrested, his home was bombed, he was subjected to personal abuse, but at the same time he emerged as a Negro leader of the first rank.

 

In 1957 he was elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organization formed to provide new leadership for the now burgeoning civil rights movement. The ideals for this organization he took from Christianity; its operational techniques from Gandhi. In the eleven-year period between 1957 and 1968, King traveled over six million miles and spoke over twenty-five hundred times, appearing wherever there was injustice, protest, and action; and meanwhile he wrote five books as well as numerous articles. In these years, he led a massive protest in Birmingham, Alabama, that caught the attention of the entire world, providing what he called a coalition of conscience. and inspiring his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail", a manifesto of the Negro revolution; he planned the drives in Alabama for the registration of Negroes as voters; he directed the peaceful march on Washington, D.C., of 250,000 people to whom he delivered his address, "l Have a Dream", he conferred with President John F. Kennedy and campaigned for President Lyndon B. Johnson; he was arrested upwards of twenty times and assaulted at least four times; he was awarded five honorary degrees; was named Man of the Year by Time magazine in 1963; and became not only the symbolic leader of American blacks but also a world figure.

 

At the age of thirty-five, Martin Luther King, Jr., was the youngest man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize. When notified of his selection, he announced that he would turn over the prize money of $54,123 to the furtherance of the civil rights movement.

 

On the evening of April 4, 1968, while standing on the balcony of his motel room in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was to lead a protest march in sympathy with striking garbage workers of that city, he was assassinated.

 

From: http://nobelprize.org/peace/laureates/1964/king-bio.html

 

Just an incredible, incredible man. I can't say enough about him.

thanksa lot, it really helped me out

 

he truly was an amazing man

You're welcome! :)

 

He really, really was. It's still hard for me to believe that he was actually assassinated. I cannot, for the life of me, understand why those who live by peace must die by violence.

 

It just seems unfair, and unjust.

it's just how things are....the greatest people die in strange ways

john lennon,freddy mercury (he wasn't assassinated but he was an active participant of the fight against aids)

He was brilliant and the most important activist of our time. I highly recommend listening to his speech, "I Have A Dream".

It is the most powerful spoken word I have ever heard.

 

Here's a link to download it

http://rapidshare.de/files/11174978/martin_luther_king_jr___i.mp3.html

Ahhhhhhhh man Eric beat me to it. :lol:

Thanks, Marisa! Even though I've listened to it so many times, it's always nice to hear it again. :thumbsup:

You're Welcome!