Hi Frank, In that case, have you had a look at Magnum photos this week?
http://todayspictures.slate.com/mlkday/ Derby Quoting frank theriault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Today's Martin Luther King Day in the USA, no? > > I was going to say "Happy MLK Day", but I don't know if that's > appropriate, although I suppose the day is (among other things) a > celebration of the man and his accomplishments. > > Whatever the appropriate greeting might be, Martin Luther King Jr. was > and is one of my personal heroes. He had incredible courage and > commitment. He moved an entire generation, and an entire nation. He > was certainly one of the great orators of this century (I'd say that > he ranked up there with Churchill in that regard). > > He taught us that non-violence works. He taught us (to paraphrase MLK > himself) to judge a human by the content of their character rather > than the colour of their skin. > > I remember, as an 11 year old, hearing that he was shot. Not long > after, RFK was assassinated as well. I was genuinely afraid that it > was all unravelling. In some ways, I think it did. What a different > world we might live in today had neither of those two had their life > taken from them that horrible spring. (but I digress...) > > Martin Luther King wasn't a perfect man (it's said he may have cheated > on his wife), as none of us are. But it can truly be said of the man > that he changed the world in a positive way. Perhaps it's appropriate > to end this with his own words, from what was certainly his greatest > speech: > > "...when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village > and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to > speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, > Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join > hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: > > Free at last! Free at last! > > Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!" > > cheers, > frank > > > -- > "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson >
