on johnkerry.com (
http://blog.johnkerry.com/2007/01/mlk_a_time_to_break_silence.html#comments). Wisteria's post is currently 4th from bottom. Her post is great, the whole thread (with audio and text link to MLK speech on Vietnam is great), and John Kerry's eulogy of Rosa Parks (which I'd never heard, or even heard
about )is
wonderfull ].
The link to Rosa Parks eulogy (thanks, kerrygoddess, for keeping this in DemDaily archives):
http://blog.thedemocraticdaily.com/?p=1032My two favorite parts, so relevant and so timely:
. . ."Yes, she sat down so we could stand up, but not so we could stand still.
“The bus still comes by again and again and each time we have to decide whether to go quietly to the back, or by simple acts of courage and conviction change the direction of our own country’s journey. . .
“For Rosa Parks and for our country, it is our time to oppose prejudice not appease it; to dispel the fear of some towards others, not exploit it; to lift up the many - not the few, and to uphold the true patriotism that does what is right, not which justifies injustice or past errors.
“Sometimes the days seem heavy and the odds seem high, but that moment on a bus in Montgomery always comes. Someone gets on that bus, refuses to equivocate or yield and changes history. Today, that someone must be us, for Rosa Parks and for our country.”