A dream deferred

Martin Luther King was assassinated by James Earl Ray on this day in 1968.

“But so it is, that there is a secret affinity, a hankering after, evil in the human mind…that takes a perverse delight in mischief, since it is a never-failing source of satisfaction.

"Pure good soon grows insipid…Pain is a bitter-sweet, which never surfeits. Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust: Hatred alone is immortal.

"…the greatest possible good of each individual consists in doing all the mischief he can to his neighbor.” – William Hazlitt.

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He's got us under his skin

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

"It’s silly to go on pretending that under the skin we are all brothers. The truth is more likely that under skin we are all cannibals, assassins, traitors, liars, hypocrites, poltroons." – Henry Miller.