Quote of the Day for 2016-09-27

"Nothing does Reason more Right, than the Coolness of those that offer it: for Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers."

— William Penn (1644-1718) Some Fruits of Solitude in Reflections and Maxims, part 1 (1682)

Martin Luther King, Jr. during an SCLC meeting at B.B. Beamon's Restaurant in Atlanta (January 23, 1963) Photograph by Flip Schulke

Quote of the Day for 2015-09-13

"You have not converted a man because you have silenced him."

— John, Lord Morley (1838-1923) On Compromise

Martin Luther King, Jr., arrested for "loitering" at the Montgomery, Alabama court house awaiting a hearing for Ralph Abernathy, September 3, 1958. An anxious Coretta Scott King looks on at right. (Photograph by Charles Moore/Black Star)