MLKjr Day: Quotes
Jan. 17th, 2011 10:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kateelliottI have 14 post-it notes stuck to my monitor. These are a more or less permanent (for some definitions of permanent) feature rather than things that come up and are taken down frequently.
3 are my kids' addresses. 1 is the # I need to reserve library books. 1 is personal. 4 are short notes to myself about writing and the creative process (aka useful reminders, inspiration, what have you). The other 5 are quotes: 1 Tricia Sullivan, 1 Gandhi, 1 Martin Buber, and 2 Martin Luther King jr.
Since today in the USA is the federally mandated holiday in honor of Martin Luther King Jr., I'll share the two MLKjr quotes:
A time comes when silence is betrayal.
Law doesn't change the heart nor restrain the heartless.
ETA: Because of a few comments below, I got curious as to the context of the second quote, and did a search, and discovered that I had written it down wrong (years ago; I have no idea where I saw it, but I found a couple of other online references to the incorrect quote).
The actual quote from the 1963 WMU Speech is:
It may be true that the law cannot change the heart but it can restrain the heartless.
The always thoughtful Prof. Juan Cole has quite a good post in honor of MLKjr on his blog, which you can find here.
3 are my kids' addresses. 1 is the # I need to reserve library books. 1 is personal. 4 are short notes to myself about writing and the creative process (aka useful reminders, inspiration, what have you). The other 5 are quotes: 1 Tricia Sullivan, 1 Gandhi, 1 Martin Buber, and 2 Martin Luther King jr.
Since today in the USA is the federally mandated holiday in honor of Martin Luther King Jr., I'll share the two MLKjr quotes:
A time comes when silence is betrayal.
Law doesn't change the heart nor restrain the heartless.
ETA: Because of a few comments below, I got curious as to the context of the second quote, and did a search, and discovered that I had written it down wrong (years ago; I have no idea where I saw it, but I found a couple of other online references to the incorrect quote).
The actual quote from the 1963 WMU Speech is:
It may be true that the law cannot change the heart but it can restrain the heartless.
The always thoughtful Prof. Juan Cole has quite a good post in honor of MLKjr on his blog, which you can find here.