You're probably right, he championed non-violence. I just like sticking to what people actually said/did, not conjecture.

Fair enough. Me too. I wouldn't have posted it as a quote if I'd known it was a fake. I might get the book and check it out though. I do have a book with all MLK's speaches here. I might find the one that's supposedly the origins of the quote and see what it really says.

He was a smart guy, could use another like him.

It might be nice if he were to pop by someday and say "that is NOT what I meant!".

I say the same thing regarding the Founding fathers and the 2nd amendment.

I don't know what "false quote" means. Maybe you meant to say "according to this source, MLK did not say the first sentence of the quote".

I think it's pretty clear what "false quote" means. I have yet to see any evidence that MLK said those quoted words. He probably used each and every word in that quote at some point in his life, but just not in that order, as far as I can tell.

Unfortunately, he was taken from us before his time. If he hadn't used those words in that order before he died, he was bound to by the end of April 1968.

I've said loads of words thruout my life. I suppose, by this argument, that I've said some pretty fucking awesome things, too. I mean, I said all the words, I just didn't string them together in that way... :rolleyes:

Some after-the-fact editing is all you need.

I found the chanting and all night singing a bit much, and noted that alot the crowd seemed very young. There was some anlaysis on NPR and they talked about how for young people, somoene who was under 12 say in 2001, Bin Laden was the Big Bad Bogeyman for large portion of their lives, so for him to be killed is huge in perspective.

My thoughts are summed up very well by what is apparently a hackneyed mis quote incorrectly attributed to Mark Twain, anyway,

"I have never wished anyone dead, but there are obituaries I have read with great deal of satisfaction"


also the new drink is The Bin Laden, two shots and a splash of water.

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:drunk:

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Beest, you probably did see a lot of that, living in a college town! Also, it's true, I remember being afraid of the cold war and some unknown russian threat, but there wasn't the likes of a Hitler or a bin Laden.

Nary a word on this campus. Different environment.

And I like the drink!

Is he DEAD or is he Dead? :lol:

Bin Laden is deAD