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To: PJ-Comix
Outside agitators? Where have we heard this before? Shame on the Daily Kos. Someone needs to send them a copy of "Letter from a Birmingham Jail."

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Charlton Heston (Conservative “Outside Agitator”)
"Letter from a Birmingham Jail"
“…I am in Birmingham because injustice is here. Just as the prophets of the eighth century B.C. left their villages and carried their "thus saith the Lord" far beyond the boundaries of their home towns, and just as the Apostle Paul left his village of Tarsus and carried the gospel of Jesus Christ to the far corners of the Greco Roman world, so am I compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my own home town. Like Paul, I must constantly respond to the Macedonian call for aid. Moreover, I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states. I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds…
Yours for the cause of Peace and Brotherhood, Martin Luther King, Jr.
April 16, 1963
Birmingham, Alabama
19 posted on 08/04/2009 8:40:27 AM PDT by PowderMonkey (Will Work for Ammo)
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To: PowderMonkey

Remember when Michael Moore tried to show Charlton Heston as a “racist”?


24 posted on 08/04/2009 8:58:15 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)
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