Kerry on MLK's day.

[Mass]

http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/10752219/detail.html

On MLK Day, Patrick Urges Others To Fight Injustice
Governor Addresses Annual Breakfast


BOSTON -- Gov. Deval Patrick addressed the annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. breakfast in South Boston Monday.

NewsCenter 5's Shiba Russell reported that Patrick, the state's first black governor, said everyone should do something to improve equality.

"He changed America and changed my life and that of so many others," Patrick said.
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Sen. John Kerry speculated about what issue King would be marching against now.

"He would summon us today to fulfill our conscious and responsibility to end what is happening in Iraq," Kerry said.

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[karynnj]

1. Nice that Dean was there too

I wonder if he and Kerry had a chance to speak.

[Mass]

2. Kerry spoke. I imagine Dean did as well

U.S. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass, speaks during the 37th annual Martin Luther KIng, Jr. breakfast, commemorating King's life and legacy, at the Boston Convention Center, Monday, Jan. 15, 2007, in Boston.(AP Photo/Bizuayehu Tesfaye

[MBS]

3. great he was there. I hope people saw wisteria's link to Rosa Parks eulogy

on johnkerry.com (http://blog.johnkerry.com/2007/01/mlk_a_time_to_break_silence.html#comments). Wisteria's post is currently 4th from bottom. Her post is great, the whole thread (with audio and text link to MLK speech on Vietnam is great), and John Kerry's eulogy of Rosa Parks (which I'd never heard, or even heard about )is wonderfull ].

The link to Rosa Parks eulogy (thanks, kerrygoddess, for keeping this in DemDaily archives): http://blog.thedemocraticdaily.com/?p=1032
My two favorite parts, so relevant and so timely:

. . ."Yes, she sat down so we could stand up, but not so we could stand still.
“The bus still comes by again and again and each time we have to decide whether to go quietly to the back, or by simple acts of courage and conviction change the direction of our own country’s journey. . .


“For Rosa Parks and for our country, it is our time to oppose prejudice not appease it; to dispel the fear of some towards others, not exploit it; to lift up the many - not the few, and to uphold the true patriotism that does what is right, not which justifies injustice or past errors.
“Sometimes the days seem heavy and the odds seem high, but that moment on a bus in Montgomery always comes. Someone gets on that bus, refuses to equivocate or yield and changes history. Today, that someone must be us, for Rosa Parks and for our country.”

[wisteria]

4. Thanks for the reccomendation. n/t

[kerrygoddess]

5. Beautiful words

I noted it on the Dem Daily - http://blog.thedemocraticdaily.com/?p=5125

[wisteria]

6. OMG, thank you so very much. n/t

[TayTay]

7. That was so wonderful

I had that taped from C-Span until my son erased it. (Grrrr.)

There was something about the intonation of that speech that just got to me. ("For Rosa Parks, --beat-- and for our country.") that just got to me. That was a really warm speech. I think it was my favorite event of 2005.

If you have a few spare moments, there were some truly wonderful threads on DU about the service for Mrs. Parks and all the incredible and warm memories it brought back for people. You can do a search in DU General for the Nov 2005 time period with the keywords Rosa Parks. Do not miss the discussion about hats in Church. Those posts are some of my favorites ever put on DU.