Sunday, January 07, 2007

Have we grown complacent?

"Every fury on earth has been absorbed in time, as art, or as religion, or as authority in one form or another. The deadliest blow the enemy of the human soul can strike is to do fury honor. Swift, Blake, Beethoven, Christ, Joyce, Kafka, name me a one who has not been thus castrated. Official acceptance is the one unmistakable symptom that salvation is beaten again, and is the one surest sign of fatal misunderstanding, and is the kiss of Judas." - James Agee, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

Martin Luther King Jr.'s I have a dream speech.

Robert Kennedy's comments on the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.