A related post at the Duke Chronicle's website (http://www.dukechronicle.com/messageboard/index.cfm?event=viewtopic&umessage_id=3d1bc1fa-12a5-410c-a893-a2dc0e123530):
Perhaps somebody should xerox the following list of quotations by Dr. Martin Luther King, and put "Duke Lacrosse 2006" at the top, and pin copies up everywhere. As a small silent reminder . . .
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
"A lie cannot live."
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
"A right delayed is a right denied."
"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it."
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
"The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict."
"The time is always right to do what is right."
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."
No one remembers what he said. His own movement has been hijacked by race-baiting individuals who believe pay-back can and should be a bitch. Give it another ten years and you won't be able to find anyone who can remember what he said or believed in or helped a nation to believe in. I pray, with all my heart, he's in a better place where he can't see what happened to his work.
Give folks 15 years and they'll be asking, "Martin Who???" His dream is is on life support in the white community and it's flat-lined in the black community.