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Happy New Era! (a Greeting to Share With Your Pals)

Martin Lewis | Posted 02.20.2009 | Politics

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Martin Lewis

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Change and the Dream: Teaching Our Children About Non-Violent Living

Terry Real | Posted 02.20.2009 | Living

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Terry Real

It is in everyone's interest -- the victim, the bully and the bystander -- to create a safe environment in which respect for one another is not just a voluntary matter but a baseline norm that we insist upon.

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Martin Luther King, Jr.- Cleansing the Fabric of Our Nation

Michael DeJong | Posted 02.19.2009 | Politics

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Michael DeJong

Today more than ever, Dr. King now seems with us. His premonition of not reaching the Promised Land at this moment seems false, because Barack Obama is standing on King's shoulders.

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Obama Does and Doesn't Fulfill King's Dream

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 02.18.2009 | Politics

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Earl Ofari Hutchinson

A percentage of whites who said they'd vote for Obama also said that blacks were more crime prone than whites. Yet Obama was seen as a racial exception, the penchant for making these distinctions between blacks.

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Is Obama's Inauguration MLK's Dream? Yes and No

Casey Gane-McCalla | Posted 02.17.2009 | Politics

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Casey Gane-McCalla

In his "I Have a Dream" speech, MLK talked about a check given to African Americans that had bounced, a check that said "all men were created equal." 45 years later, has the check cleared?

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McCain Salutes Martin Luther King's "I Have A Dream" Speech

Martin Lewis | Posted 09.28.2008 | Politics

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Martin Lewis

McCain: I have a dream that one day all men will live out the true meaning of my creed: "We hold these first wives to be self-evidently dump-able (especially if they have gained a lot of weight after a severely disfiguring car accident).

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McCain's MLK Moment: "I Have A McDream!"

Martin Lewis | Posted 09.24.2008 | Politics

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Martin Lewis

"I am grateful for the fact that I have a wonderful life. I spent some years without a kitchen table, without a chair, and I know what it's like to b...

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Friday Talking Points [38] -- Whiners And Cheeseheads

Chris Weigant | Posted 07.19.2008 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

Welcome back to Friday Talking Points, after a one-week hiatus! While plenty has happened in the past two weeks which bears close and careful analysis...

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Obama to Accept Nomination on 45th Anniversary of the "I Have a Dream" Speech

Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. | Posted 06.11.2008 | Politics

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Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.

Senator Obama's nomination confirms Dr. King's observation that "the moral arc of the universe" is long, but bends toward freedom and justice for all.

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