Reply #18: Thanks. I think it's time for some more King.

[DrDebug]

I think that one of the lessons from King is not only the power of a good speaker, but also that he needed the gut instinct of those horrible pictures and it is exactly those pictures which are withheld by the media. In a way most people here are lucky that we have seen the suffering. The story of the ordinary people like told by http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com , the pictures hidden at http://memoryhole.org , the accounts of soldiers who have returned wounded from the fields of war. It is those trigger which are needed.

A political stand is need as well and not everybody is the right material to go into politics, however there are people here who are capable of it and let them take the message into the Democratic Party and rejuvinate and reactivate the power a bit.

The most important is part is unity. It is well known that both J. Edgar Hoover and Lyndon Johnson tried very hard to seperate Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, because their union is what feared them the most and sadly they succeeded in putting them into seperate camps. And keeping the group together is very hard as is often displayed on this board as well. Divide and conquer is easy; Keeping the people together is the hardest task of them all.

The Ballot or the Bullet
by Malcolm X
12 April, 1964, Detroit, Michigan

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The strategy of the white man has always been divide and conquer. He keeps us divided in order to conquer us. He tells us that I am for separation and you are for integration and keeps us fighting each other. No, I'm not for separation and you're not for integration. What you and I are for is freedom. Only you think that integration will get you freedom, I think separation will get me freedom. We've both got the same objective - we've just got different ways at getting at it.

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http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/malcolmxballot.htm