Historians say King was far from revered as he pushed activism beyond race
"At the time of his death, King was working on anti-poverty and anti-war issues."
"Obama has invoked King, and Sen. John Kerry endorsed Obama by saying 'Martin Luther King said that the time is always right to do what is right.'"
Clinton on hearing King:
"It was a transforming experience for me," she said. "He made it very clear that the Civil Rights movement was about economic justice."
Edwards on King comments: "Those who believe that real change starts with Washington politicians have been in Washington too long and are living a fairy tale."
"What the election is about is about building one America."
Of course this is cherry picking here. Maybe the simplicity of the media and the subtitled words "beyond race" is merited. But how can we not feel that the simplicity of the media and the current leadership is not ignored as well. Now is that not a double-edged sword that makes so much harder?
Complexity or simplicity or just untimely? "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"
We must use time creatively, and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right. Now is the time to make real the promise of democracy, and transform our pending national elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood. Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.
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