“On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, ‘Is it safe?’ Expediency asks the question, ‘Is it politic?’ And Vanity comes along and asks the question, ‘Is it popular?’ But Conscience asks the question ‘Is it right?’ And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must do it because Conscience tells him it is right.”
—-Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., in his Feb. 6, 1968 speech in Washington D.C. entitled “A Proper Sense of Priorities.”
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I don’t know if I heard this some place else and most likely I did but when I think of Rev. King I always think “Washington secured the Republic, Lincoln preserved the Republic and King fulfilled the Republic.”
My greatest hero of all time. Even in his private conversations he was true to his word…an honest to goodness GOOD man who had no agenda,felt no hate,and simply wanted for us all to get along.
King nailed it dead on with that one.