“Martin Luther King Jr's agenda was not to help Negroes overcome American apartheid in the south. It was to make America democracy a better place, where everyday people, from poor people who were white and red and yellow and black and brown, would be able to live lives in decency and dignity.” PeopleHelpingWould BeAbleAmericaBlackWhitePoorDemocracyKingsRedDignityOvercomingSouthEverydayLive LifeBrownAgendasYellowBetter PlacePoor PeopleDecencyLutherApartheidRed And Yellow Author:Cornel West
“Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice. If they knew its charms, the dignity that accompanies it, how much a free man feels like a king, the perpetual inner light that is produced by decorous self-awareness and realization, perhaps there would be no greater friends of freedom than those who are its worst enemies.” IfsMenFeelsSelfLightWould BeVoiceLibertyEnemyGreaterWorstAwarenessJudgingKingsDignitySelf AwarenessRealizationLoudCharmPerpetualFree ManAccompanyWorst EnemyInner LightLoud Voices Author:Jose Marti
“In a democracy, every ordinary citizen is effectively a king--but a king in a constitutional democracy, a monarch who decides only formally, whose function is merely to sign off on measures proposed by an executive administration. This is why the problem with democratic rituals is homologous to the great problem of constitutional monarchy: how to protect the dignity of the king? How to maintain the appearance that the king effectively makes decisions, when we all know this not to be true?” KnowsProblemDecisionDemocracyKingsCitizensProtectOrdinaryDignityFunctionDemocraticAppearanceBeing TrueAdministrationExecutivesRitualMonarchyMonarchsOrdinary CitizensConstitutional MonarchySigning Off Book:First As Tragedy, Then As Farce Source: First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
“Titles and mottoes to books are like escutcheons and dignities in the hands of a king. The wise sometimes condescend to accept of them; but none but a fool would imagine them of any real importance. We ought to depend upon intrinsic merit, and not the slender helps of the title.” BookRealSometimesHelpingHandsAcceptingWiseImagineFoolDependsOughtKingsDignityImportanceTitlesMeritSlender Book:Essays and The Bee Source: Essays and The Bee
“Certainly Martin Luther King, in the mainstream perception of him, had a dream. Yes, he did. But the question becomes, what was that dream? It wasn't the American Dream. It was a dream that all human beings, especially poor and working people, be treated with dignity.” PeopleHumansDreamHuman BeingsPoorKingsPerceptionDignityTreatedMainstreamAmerican DreamLuther Author:Cornel West
“Those two are carved from the same tree." the queen said. By the same blade." The high king answered and offered her his arm in splendid dignity” SaidTwoTreeArmsKingsDignityQueensBladesSplendid Author:Victoria Hanley