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Faygo Kid

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1. Never forget

Reply to bigtree (Original post)

Sun Mar 31, 2013, 11:34 AM

Mar 2013

Another moment I will never forget, as I was 16 when we lost him. Searing. His message of economic justice is too often forgotten. Thanks for posting this.

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This morning in 1968 Martin Luther King gave the final Sunday sermon of his life [View all] bigtree Mar 2013 OP

Never forget Faygo Kid Mar 2013 #1

such an all-encompassing sermon bigtree Mar 2013 #2

Now I'm crying. Why do they always kill the best? McCamy Taylor Mar 2013 #3

I don't know. We can only go on. Faygo Kid Mar 2013 #4

Because the best are a REAL threat to their hate filled lives. But what they fail to realize is that jwirr Mar 2013 #5

Because they are dangerous... awoke_in_2003 Mar 2013 #9

I was in training to be a baseball ump that evening Faygo Kid Mar 2013 #11

And a great organized labor leader Omaha Steve Mar 2013 #6

as early as 1961 - Martin Luther King Jr.quoted (from somewhere) on “right to work” bigtree Mar 2013 #7

and our weapon,... awoke_in_2003 Mar 2013 #10

He was becoming more critical of "the system" in the last months of his life... YoungDemCA Mar 2013 #8

Thanks for posting shenmue Mar 2013 #12

. bigtree Mar 2013 #13