“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of

[grahamhgreen]

“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

[TexasObserver]

1. So, letting it burn WASN'T what MLK would have suggested?

I agree. It's an easy call, if one isn't missing the critical components of compassion and reason.

[KittyWampus]

19. You need to grasp the difference between altruism and enabling dysfunctional behavior

[TexasObserver]

21. I'm not moved by your nonsensical arguments.

[Hannah Bell]

2. mlk wouldn't have said quite as much if he hadn't had funders.

you think the civil rights movement ran on bake sales?

it was funded.

[TexasProgresive]

3. Of course the movement was funded by donations and

the hard work of many volunteers of all races, beliefs or nonbelief.

Now how does that relate to the OP?

[Hannah Bell]

4. if you have to ask, you weren't here

[grahamhgreen]

9. Destructive selfishness VS creative altruism

The choice is yours to make every day!

;-)

[Hannah Bell]

11. ...& obion county chose not to fund fire protection.

you can frame any attempt to stop people from taking advantage of you as "destructive selfishness".

[grahamhgreen]

12. Very destructive

[Amaril]

20. Distructive selfishness?

You mean like keeping an issue that has been this divisive alive by posting yet one more thread about it? And for what reason? It's not like it hasn't been fucking argued TO DEATH already.

[grahamhgreen]

22. The discussion has just begun

And it will continue until it is understood that libertarianism and Republicanism is just an excuse for selfishness and greed.

[Bluerthanblue]

5. it doesn't, but that won't matter-

the meaning of the quote is obscured by the almighty dollar I'm afraid.

thanks for posting the quote Grahamgreen. It speaks to the kind of world I believe in, and work towards.

:grouphug:

[TexasObserver]

8. Desperate and sad.

[Hannah Bell]

13. your post? yes.

[MineralMan]

14. It was funded in many ways, Hannah. I sold my car and donated

the money after I returned to California after listening to MLK's speech in Montgomery in 1965. It was all I had. There were lots of small donations.

[grahamhgreen]

25. Thank you for that!

You are a true hero!

[MineralMan]

28. Well, right after that, I joined the USAF. I needed some time to

figure out what I had learned in Alabama.

[bvar22]

6. K&R, and worth rpeting:

“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.



"If we don't fight hard enough for the things we stand for,
at some point we have to recognize that we don't really stand for them."
--- Paul Wellstone

[Bluerthanblue]

7. he also said-

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.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.


a remarkable man

K&R

[deutsey]

10. Odd that Beck didn't use any of these MLK quotes n/t

[TexasObserver]

15. I think we was relying on Ayn Rand when he cheered the home burning down.

[MineralMan]

16. You'd think Ayn Rand and Karl Marx were separated at birth,

based on some things I've read here lately.

[TexasObserver]

17. Marx must be rolling over in his grave.

I'm sure FDR and LBJ are.

[MineralMan]

18. Some say that Karl Marx was just a sockpuppet for Santa Claus.

That's what I hear.

[grahamhgreen]

23. Or was it for

Robin Hood?

[MineralMan]

27. No, just look at my avatar. It's clear. Karl Marx is Santa Claus,

or a simulacrum of him, at least. A sockpuppet, shall we say. Think about it.

Who shares the wealth with children and the poor?
Who likes the color red more than Santa?
Look at that great beard.
Who has a communal toy factory, employing unemployable elves at the North Pole?

No, it's clear. Marx's secret is out.

[grahamhgreen]

30. LOL!

[dflprincess]

31. No wonder one of the things the FBI removed in the raids of peace activists homes in MInneapolis

was a poster of MLK.

They are still so afraid of him his picture is seen as a threat.

[lumberjack_jeff]

24. Well yeah... He was a preacher.

Preachers earn their living from altruism.

[grahamhgreen]

26. Which is how we all earn

Our afterlife

[Mendocino]

29. Few men are willing to brave

the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential vital quality of those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.

RFK