Quote of the Day
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I put the Quote of the Day on the right panel because they are usually thoughtful, and sometimes amusing. Of course, I don't generate them; some computer does.
The one today is especially telling: Martin Luther King, "We are not makers of history. We are made by history." In one phrase, if he was quoted correctly, he summed up the welfare state mentality's answer to industriousness, American can-do and our historical work ethic: "Sit back and let it happen".
I'm disgusted, and so should be everyone who puts in a full day's work. If We the People are not makers of history, then no one is. Rosa Parks, I think, made history. And what she did propelled King himself to prominence. A lot of others "made" history, too.
If anyone thinks King's thoughts on this are accurate, then please explain how the civil rights movement every succeeded.
I put the Quote of the Day on the right panel because they are usually thoughtful, and sometimes amusing. Of course, I don't generate them; some computer does.
The one today is especially telling: Martin Luther King, "We are not makers of history. We are made by history." In one phrase, if he was quoted correctly, he summed up the welfare state mentality's answer to industriousness, American can-do and our historical work ethic: "Sit back and let it happen".
I'm disgusted, and so should be everyone who puts in a full day's work. If We the People are not makers of history, then no one is. Rosa Parks, I think, made history. And what she did propelled King himself to prominence. A lot of others "made" history, too.
If anyone thinks King's thoughts on this are accurate, then please explain how the civil rights movement every succeeded.
posted by Greg Finnegan @ 4:20 AM
1 Comments:
At 4:06 PM,
Stew Magoo said…
Sure, it's every Socialists dream.
Minimize personal accomplishments, maximize the accomplishments of the collective.
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