Here we give our tired feet new strength as we continue our forward striat toward

the city of freedom. When our days become dreary, with low hovering clouds of despair,

when our nights become darker than the thousand midnight, let us remember.

And that is a creative force in this universe, working to pull down the gigantic mountains of evil,

a power that is able to make a way out of no way and transform dark yesterdays into bright tomorrow.

Let us realize that dark of a moral universe is long but it bends toward justice. Let us realize that

William Colbert Bryant is right. Truth, Christ, earth will rise again.

Martin Luther King Jr. on this day that is set aside to remember him, even though that pisses some people off.

I was listening to an interview with Taylor Branch. I pitch Taylor Branch every year on MLK Day. He

is the author of a trilogy of books about the civil rights movement. It's not a biography of Martin

Luther King Jr., but it's a biography entire civil rights movement and Martin Luther King Jr.

obviously plays a major role in it. Taylor Branch, the first book being partying the waters and

it's the best thing I've ever read on the subject. It's a thousand pages and it's one of three books.

So it's a lot to read. But the guy interviewing him was part of SNCC, the student whatever it is,

committee, something or other. One of the activist groups back in the 60s that they got a lot done.

And this guy, old gentleman at this point, obviously had some bitterness toward MLK and talked a little

bit about the celebrity leaders and the intention they got versus the people that were doing all the

work on the ground and organizing or the people that were there long before he came along and that

sort of thing. And one of the things that got from that book, it was new to me. It's obviously true.

It's the way everything works in life. But I'd never heard this angle of it. There are a lot of people in

the civil rights movement that felt like MLK got way too much attention or had angled in ways that

made him look better at the expense of others and or were just jealous of his fame. Interesting.

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