In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.
who 45 years ago this evening was assassinated on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis.
The greatest honor I can give him is to offer you this: the speech he gave exactly one year before his death, in Riverside Church in New York City.
Perhaps you can listen to his actual speech:
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Perhaps you do not have time now to listen for the almost full hour. At some time you should - it is far more powerful to hear him speak, but there is also an alternative . . .
where you will encounter directly words like these, words that always speak to me with power:
The greatest honor I can give him is to offer you this: the speech he gave exactly one year before his death, in Riverside Church in New York City.
Perhaps you can listen to his actual speech:
Popout
Perhaps you do not have time now to listen for the almost full hour. At some time you should - it is far more powerful to hear him speak, but there is also an alternative . . .
where you will encounter directly words like these, words that always speak to me with power:
Here is the true meaning and value of compassion and nonviolence when it helps us to see the enemy's point of view, to hear his questions, to know his assessment of ourselves. For from his view we may indeed see the basic weaknesses of our own condition, and if we are mature, we may learn and grow and profit from the wisdom of the brothers who are called the opposition.Would that we had learned that lesson.Please keep reading.
Schools Worth Cloning in the Public Sector
This morning I am posting something that may be of interest, written by someone else.
Yesterday I posted something written by Bill Ayers, which he had sent me as a result of reading this post on a column by Eugene Robinson the day before. After reading my post on Ayers, a teacher from Chicago named Paul Horton reached out to Bill and asked if he would forward to me something he had written. What is below the fold is that piece.
To put into context who Paul Horton is, he teaches at the Laboratory Schools of the University of Chicago. It is the alma mater of Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. It was where the Obama girls attended school before he was elected President. Among the current Chicago notables whose children are or have attended the Lab School are Penny Pritzker, who was a major fundraiser for the President, serves as head of the Chicago Board of Education, and is rumored to be the next Secretary of Commerce, and former Congressman and White House
Yesterday I posted something written by Bill Ayers, which he had sent me as a result of reading this post on a column by Eugene Robinson the day before. After reading my post on Ayers, a teacher from Chicago named Paul Horton reached out to Bill and asked if he would forward to me something he had written. What is below the fold is that piece.
To put into context who Paul Horton is, he teaches at the Laboratory Schools of the University of Chicago. It is the alma mater of Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. It was where the Obama girls attended school before he was elected President. Among the current Chicago notables whose children are or have attended the Lab School are Penny Pritzker, who was a major fundraiser for the President, serves as head of the Chicago Board of Education, and is rumored to be the next Secretary of Commerce, and former Congressman and White House