Martin Luther King, this thread honors you, your life and that still unrealized dream.

[bobthedrummer]

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[jotsy]

1. Honored to be first rec

[bobthedrummer]

2. I hope we have a lot of DUers with us in this tribute, jotsy, DUers working towards fulfillment

of that dream today.

[jotsy]

4. A hope we share.

<http://www.jwj.org/>

[jwirr]

3. He left us too soon but he left us with a dream that we still cherish.

[butterfly77]

5. Kicked&Recommended!

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[leftstreet]

6. K&R

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7. +1 NT

[treestar]

8. K&R

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[Lugnut]

9. K&R

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[raouldukelives]

10. K&R

[w8liftinglady]

11. My recent editorial in his honor...

i will always try to continue what he represented,all that is good.

http://www.thedailylight.com/articles/2011/01/11/opinion/doc4d2c9fa26e19f219676903.txt

As a new Congress begins work, one area requires immediate attention — especially in Texas. This, of course, is health care. Texas leads the United States in adults and children with no health insurance. Currently, 26.2 percent of adults in Texas and 18.2 percent of children in Texas have NO medical insurance, public or private.

The Center For Disease Control is a wonderful resource for information on health care and health in America. Some of the statistics:

• 9 percent of adults ages 18- 64 have diabetes

• At least 6 of every 10 deaths could be prevented from colon cancer if every adult 50 years or older got tested regularly.

• In 2007, 202,964 women in the United States were diagnosed with breast cancer; 40,598 women in the United States died from breast cancer.

• In 2007, 30 percent of Americans over age 20 had hypertension.

• As of Jan. 8, the number of people on transplant waiting lists was 110,168 Americans

In each of these cases, access to early diagnosis, treatment and adequate pharmaceuticals is the key to survival and quality of life.

Unfortunately, health care is the first subject to be challenged by the new Congress. Instead of discussing this extreme need experienced by citizens of our nation, talk is rampant about “Repealing Obamacare” ... with no alternative offered.

As we prepare to celebrate the life of a great American, never forget one of his most passionate causes. “Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.” I have no doubt that Martin Luther King Jr. would have supported universal health care.

Dr. King was wise beyond his years. As a nation, we would all benefit by learning from him.

[jotsy]

12. Last March, Bill Quigley quoted Dr King in an article that appeared in Common Dreams.

The closing paragraph from the legal director at the Center for Constitutional Rights.

...Forty three years ago next month, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. preached in Riverside Church in New York City that “a time comes when silence is betrayal.” He went on to condemn the Vietnam War and the system which created it and the other injustices clearly apparent. “We as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a “thing oriented” society to a “person oriented” society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism and militarism are incapable of being conquered.”

It is time.

<http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/03/07-7>

[jotsy]

13. And another today.

The MLK Justice Index 2011 as it pertains to that tyrannical threesome.

<http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/01/17>

[H2O Man]

14. K&R!

[bobthedrummer]

15. ^