Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
"Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them." "The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.""When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.""You know my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled by the iron feet of oppression ...If we are wrong, the Supreme Court of this nation is wrong. If we are wrong, the Constitution of the United States is wrong. And if we are wrong, God Almighty is wrong. If we are wrong, Jesus of Nazareth was merely a utopian dreamer that never came down to Earth. If we are wrong, justice is a lie, love has no meaning. And we are determined here in Montgomery to work and fight until justice runs down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream.""Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten. A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an ugly past when the ravages persist into the present. America owes a debt of justice which it has only begun to pay. If it loses the will to finish or slackens in its determination, history will recall its crimes and the country that would be great will lack the most element of greatness — justice.""Don't let anybody make you think God chose America as his divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world. God has a way of standing before the nations with justice and it seems I can hear God saying to America "you are too arrogant, and if you don't change your ways, I will rise up and break the backbone of your power, and I place it in the hands of a nation that doesn't even know my name.""They asked if our own nation wasn't using massive doses of violence to solve its problems in Vietnam, to bring about the changes it wanted. Their questions hit home, and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without havingfirst spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today — my own government.""This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love."
"If America does not use her vast resources of wealth to end poverty, to make it possible for all of God's children to have the basic necessities of life, she too will go to Hell…." "It is a crime for people to live in this rich nation and receive starvation wages," King said two weeks before his death."… I can hear the God of the universe saying… 'The children of my sons and daughters were in need of economic security, and you didn't provide for them. So you cannot enter the kingdom of greatness'.""America gave the black man a bad check that's been bouncing all around,"King said in March, 1968. "… You are even unjustly spending $500,000 to kill a single Viet Cong soldier, while you spend only $53 a year per person for everybody categorized as poverty-stricken.' Instead of spending $35 billion every year to fight an unjust, ill-considered war in Vietnam and $20 billion to put a man on the moon, we need to put God's children on their own two feet."
Martin L. King Jr. curses America and tell our government to "CHANGE" its ways (YouTude Video)
Blacks are only 12 to 13% of the population spread out across America in some states only 2% to 7% whats 92% of 2% to 7%. What about other races besides whites and blacks? And if a state gets 92% of the black vote in a state with only 2% to 7% blacks. Then it wasn't a majority of blacks who helped him win the state. States Obama won and their low percentages of blacks; Iowa (2%), Alaska (3%), Colorado (4%), Idaho (0.7%), Kansas (6%), Minnesota (4%), North Dakota (0.8%), Utah (1%), Nebraska (4%), Washington (3%), Maine (0.8%), Hawaii (2%), Wisconsin (6%), Oregon (2-3%) Vermont(0.7%), Wyoming (0.9%), a state he almost won like Indiana has 7% blacks. So what does the media mean 90% of the black vote? Awwww cuz very few blacks are voting for the others candidates...Yet aren't there other races of people besides white and black percentages?
Apparently, "some" White Americans are unaware that Obama is not the first presidential candidate of color to run. If it were only due to race, why didn't African American all rally around Jesse Jackson? Al Sharpton? Alan Keyes? Note that we voted 83% for Bill Clinton even when Alan Keyes was on the ballot :) I am so tired of the "because he is black" reason. Skin color, really? While the majority of presidents, senators, governors, mayors have been white. In a nation with 30-40% minorities yet 95% or more the weath and people in power white. Yet they call blacks racist. No racism is the belief your race is superior and has the right to rule all other races (Study American History intill the present). Just don't think blacks are suppose to vote for or like Hillary just because she is the wife of a former prez they liked.
They never said they like Hillary, they said they liked Bill. They also showed their support for Bill just like they did Obama with the majority of the black vote twice. They gave him 8 years now that greedy mofo wanted 8 more for his wife. Are the white people who voted for Obama suppose to vote for his wife when she wants to be prez? Yet some of the people voting for Hillary said they'd never vote for Obama or a black man. Blacks on the other hand will vote for a white person and have been voting for white people since they've been allowed to vote. The truth still remains blacks are only 12-13% of the American population spread out across all the states including Hawaii and Alaska. Which means that 88% of America is non-black (Right?) Also note Hillary was still getting sometimes 10% of the black vote.
There are numerous states that are in fact 90% or more white yet no states that are 90% or more black. States Obama won with the highest percentages of blacks; Connecticut (10%), Missouri (11%), Illinois (15%), Virginia (19%), Delaware (20%), Alabama (27%), South Carolina (29%), Washington, D.C.(55%), Maryland (30%), Georgia (30%), Louisiana (32%), and Mississippi (37% the highest population of blacks in America). What about states like West Virginia and Kentucky voting for Hillary by 65-70% in a state with 90% or more whites. Despite these two hillbilly states, the majority of people voting for Obama have always been whites not blacks. This is why the muslim smear emails were spread, the Rev Wright controversy stayed on the news for months and the media only mentions percentages of black and white voters.
They are trying to cut into the numbers of Obama's main supporters (White Americans) African American's just balance off the votes of the KKK, and other pro-white/pro-hillary/anti-black organizations along with the hillbilly rednecks who make up a huge part of the American white population. So why was Hillary Complaining? Did Alan Keyes (a black independent presidential candidate) complain when Bill Clinton was getting 85% or more of the black vote? Shouldn't blacks have been voting for Alan Keyes over Bill Clinton since his skin color was the same as theirs like the media claims? What about all the other white presidental candidates blacks have been voting for, ever since they've been allowed to vote? The Kennedys were getting a majority of the black vote and who did they endorse. JFK is the most beloved president in the black community next to lincoln and his family endorsed whom? Couldn't that be another reason why blacks love Obama? If more white people liked him in Iowa (a state with 2% blacks) with Hillary caming in 3rd place. Why couldn't blacks like Obama also?
The truth of the matter is if Obama lost and Hillary won, blacks wouldn't turn around and voted for McCain like alot of whites who voted for Hillary turned around and voted for McCain.
Comments welcome..."GOD DAMN AMERICA!"Is Wright's comment REALLY un-American? Read on...Then the LORD said, "The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so grievous that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. [Genesis 18:20]Son of man, set your face against Jerusalem and preach against the sanctuary. Prophesy against the land of Israel" [Ezekiel 21:2]This is what the LORD Almighty says: "Cut down the trees and build siege ramps against Jerusalem. This city must be punished;it is filled with oppression. [Jeremiah 6:6]Sound Familiar?Here's a similar quote from Rev. Jeremiah Wright (yes, I bolded his first name on purpose to make a point):“The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing ‘God Bless America.’ No, no,no, God damn America, that’s in the Bible for killing innocent people. God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme.”I've been hearing so much back and forth about this, I wanted to bring in a fresh perspective...Let's take a quick look at the above statement... Isn't it fair, for a Christian pastor, to ask God to avenge the blood of an oppressed people? Isn't it fair for someone who prays, to ask God to repay those who have put themselves in the place of God? Yep.... it's totally fair... AND Biblical... (the Bible verses above are just a tiny sampling of how the Bible addresses these issues).Wright is a pastor, and he thinks in terms of Biblical Law... in fact, he would be sold on the idea that the United States is a "christian" nation, and as such, is "supposed" to be "godly."If the United States, claiming to be a "christian" nation, instead becomes an "ungodly" nation, it is totally normal for a Christian leader to ask God to repay their infidelity to God... (it's everywhere they look in the Bible).Wright isn't saying: "go out and take over the country," which is what the Declaration of Independence says is the prescription when "any government becomes destructive of these ends," (speaking of the right to life, liberty and the persuit of happiness), Wright is saying "God damn America." Wright is calling on God to NOT bless the country "as long as" she is guilty of the things outlined in red above... he's not declaring a holy war, nor advocating one... he's not saying he "hates America." He, like his namesake, Jeremiah of the Bible, is asking God to judge and chastise America for her wanderings from the Godly ways... Like his namesake Jeremiah, he's asking God to remember the sins of a so-called "christian" nation and hold her accountable for her hypocrasy... He's a man of God, calling on God to repay America for the three things mentioned above (highlighted in red). Jeremiah was an Israelite... he was a prophet of Israel... he LOVED Israel SO MUCH, that he prayed for God to chastise her... and so did Isaiah, and so did Ezekiel... and MANY of the Israelite prophets... in times of hypocrasy and backsliding, the men of God of the Bible, called on God to chastise... to "repay." This would be something TOTALLY natural for Wright to say, as a christian pastor... especially one who tells the truth from the Bible... here's the list again:1. Killing innocent people (which the US government has done. It's called "collateral damage.")
2. For treating our citizens as less than human (which still occurs in many forms)
3. As long as she (America) acts like she is God and she is supreme.What we have to ask is: "What does 'God damn America' mean?"What is Wright asking God for here? The evidence is in the term "as long as." Wright is saying, "as long as" America continues to act in the listed ways, I'm asking God to "not bless America." Why? Because America doesn't deserve a blessing from God "as long as" she continues to behave in the manner listed above... not under those circumstances... and the opposite of "God bless America" is, "God damn America." Of course, Wright COULD have said: "God don't bless America as long as she behaves this way," but he chose the more dramatic form of the statement.Wright is basically saying: "God, teach America a lesson... teach her NOT to do the things she's doing... He's not saying: "I HATE America".. "He's saying: "I LOVE America so much... and what America is supposed to be, that I am asking God to NOT bless her... to force her to wake up from her hypocracy and repent... this is the job of the Pastor... to call his people to REPENT... and to ask God to bring that repentence about, for the good of America... this is a pastor's love for a country, enough that he would call upon God to "damn" her "as long as" her behavior deviates from her "godly" calling...Now ask yourself: "Should I ask God to bless a country that does the three things listed above?" Should I ask God to bless the leaders of Darfur, or Damn them?" "Should I ask God to bless those who engage in ethnic cleansing, or should I ask God to Damn them?" As a man of God, who follows the Bible, and the laws of God...When I read Wright's words, with the understanding of the Israelite prophets that I have, I don't see a man who "hates" America... I see a man who loves "the idea" of "the true" America so much, that he would ask God to punish her "as long as" she commits her backsliding atrocities against his creatures...Finally, the converse of what Wright is saying is: "When America DOES finally awaken, and live our her creed, then and ONLY then, will 'God bless America.'"
