Links for January 20th

Quotes from "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King, Jr. « An Absolution Revolution – oraculum seditionis

"…the sad truth seems to be that we have so emphasized King as a 'nice guy' with a dream that people will 'be nice to each other' that we have lost track of how radical a figure he really was, how dangerous he was to unjust power structures, and the precise reasons why he became so influential in his time."

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Can Barack Obama fix it? Yes he can – Times Online

Strong analysis of Barack Obama's domestic and foreign policies, what they mean, and their chances of success. Andrew Sullivan at his best.

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politics

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The Forgotten Heart of King's Dream » Blog » Greg Boyd (Christus Victor Ministries)

"The very fact that this tribute to King, at this turning point in history, was delivered by a four-star military general was ironic. The fact that Powell illustrated King's call to "service" by praising America's soldiers was even more ironic. And the fact that Powell claimed America was a great nation on the basis of the greatness of our soldiers throughout our history was, in my opinion, stunningly ironic. For you see, at the heart of everything King stood for was an unqualified conviction that violence can never achieve a good end that endures."

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peace

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