Dive into the archives.
- This is “Change”
GW Bush, Rose Garden, 24 June 2002: “It is untenable for Palestinians to live in squalor and occupation. And the current situation offers no prospect that life will improve… My vision is two states, living side by side in peace and security.” BH Obama, Cairo University, 4 June 2009: “They endure the daily humiliations, large [...]
- Martin Luther King Jr. (Belatedly)
Yesterday was Martin Luther King Day and it got me thinking about the irony of becoming larger than life—on becoming a national icon. Despite King’s pacifism and incisive rejection of American foreign policy, he has been mainstreamed and virtually removed from the ideology he represented. How many children are made to recite King’s “I Have [...]
- Martin Luther King Jr.: I Have a Dream
I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of [...]
