"Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted." - MLK
...And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land. So I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man.
--Martin Luther King Jr., Speech in Memphis, April 3, 1968
He was assassinated the next day.
For someone who is supposed to be so prolific with words, I find it suprising that I truly have little to say. I cannot put into text how brave, couragous, or heroic I find MLK, or how much wisdom his words have carried for me. His quote - In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. - shaped my life in some of my roughest times, and his life helped inspired my love of history. The story of my life pales in comparison to his, but yet my story does not dimminish, it is rather flurshed and nurtured by a great American hero.