# martin luther king (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 10 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover martin luther king. Page: Feed: --- ## [Kindness is the quality that makes human life worth living](https://blog.jlhuie.com/2026/08/kindness-is-quality-that-makes-human.html) _2026-08-27 · Unknown · Daily Inspiration - Daily Quotes_ Kindness is perhaps the most essential quality of being fully human. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve. - Joseph Joubert My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness. - Dalai Lama Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. - Lao Tzu Kindness is the quality that… ## [The Myth of the "Self-Made Man"](https://blog.jlhuie.com/2026/08/the-myth-of-self-made-man.html) _2026-08-26 · Unknown · Daily Inspiration - Daily Quotes_ None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. - Thurgood Marshall Ingratitude often hides behind a mask of independence or self-sufficiency. An assertion of being "self-made" is a rejection of God, one's ancestors, and society. Your Genes, Place of Birth, and Upbringing are God's Gift to You. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie Those who have succeeded at anything and don't… ## [Your Winter Or Ours?](https://ronnyelliott.blogspot.com/2026/08/your-winter-or-ours.html) _2026-08-25 · ronnyelliott · ronnyelliott_ How much time do we waste worrying about the way other folks do things? First of all, who cares? Birds sing and creeks babble. Why would I want to listen to some blowhard preacher or politician tell me what to do? What's right and what's wrong? Turns out that I'm an even slower learner than I thought. Most of my heroes screwed up from time to time. In fact I'll bet they screwed up regularly.… ## [The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority](https://blog.jlhuie.com/2026/08/the-ultimate-court-of-appeal-is.html) _2026-08-25 · Unknown · Daily Inspiration - Daily Quotes_ Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. - Carl Sagan The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority. - Thomas Huxley What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on. - Jacques Yves Cousteau The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for… ## [Be Gentle, Be Generous](https://blog.jlhuie.com/2026/08/be-gentle-be-generous.html) _2026-08-24 · Unknown · Daily Inspiration - Daily Quotes_ In a gentle way, you can shake the world. - Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be generous; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men. - Lao… ## [Our Vision is Biased by What We Expect to See or Fear to See](https://blog.jlhuie.com/2026/08/our-vision-is-biased-by-what-we-expect.html) _2026-08-23 · Unknown · Daily Inspiration - Daily Quotes_ Choose the World You See, and See the World You Choose. You have a choice about the perspective you take on life. See tragedy, and the world is tragic - see beauty, and the world is beautiful. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. - Ralph Waldo Emerson What we see depends mainly on what we look for. - John Lubbock It all… ## [Don't trust until trust is earned](https://blog.jlhuie.com/2026/08/dont-trust-until-trust-is-earned.html) _2026-08-22 · Unknown · Daily Inspiration - Daily Quotes_ It is wonderful to have Faith, but don't confuse trust with being gullible. Balance trust with conscious thought. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough. - Frank Crane Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet. - African Proverb Trust yourself, then you will know how to live. - Johann Wolfgang von… ## [Be Patient and Gentle](https://blog.jlhuie.com/2026/08/be-patient-and-gentle.html) _2026-08-21 · Unknown · Daily Inspiration - Daily Quotes_ Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it. - Lao Tzu Choose your battles wisely. While your core principles and your life goals are important, most of what you let upset you is not worth an argument or lost sleep. Take Lao Tzu's advice and become softer and more flexible. Patience, persistence, and perseverance. A little more each day, a little better each day. -… ## [The Challenge is to Become Your Greatest Self](https://blog.jlhuie.com/2026/08/the-challenge-is-to-become-your.html) _2026-08-20 · Unknown · Daily Inspiration - Daily Quotes_ Only when life is difficult, are we challenged to become our greatest selves. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie Fall seven times, stand up eight. - Japanese Proverb It is not because life is difficult that we do not dare. Life is difficult because we do not dare. - Seneca All things at first appear difficult. - Chinese proverb Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty, remember that… ## [Open Mind, Clean Hands, Loving Heart](https://blog.jlhuie.com/2026/08/open-mind-clean-hands-loving-heart.html) _2026-08-19 · Unknown · Daily Inspiration - Daily Quotes_ God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones. - Publilius Syrus You can learn a lot from people who view the world differently than you do. - Anthony J. D'Angelo Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. - George Bernard Shaw Today's affirmation: I approach life with an Open Mind, Clean Hands, and a Loving Heart. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie… ## [Sync bookmarks across every browser (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/xtPLIOgeaNfV) _2026-08-19 · **Sponsored**_ Two-way sync across Chrome, Firefox and Safari; built-in ad and tracker blocker. ## [The Wisdom Letter #476](https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-476) _2026-08-18 · Philosophors · Philosophy Quotes_ 5 quotes from Anton Chekhov, Frank Herbert, and others. ## [Life operates in subtleties rather than in absolutes](https://blog.jlhuie.com/2026/08/life-operates-in-subtleties-rather-than.html) _2026-08-18 · Unknown · Daily Inspiration - Daily Quotes_ Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable. - George S. Patton Life only appears complicated when one is worrying. Relax, and life becomes simple again. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time. - Joan D. Vinge The curious paradox is that… ## [Seek Balance In All Things](https://blog.jlhuie.com/2026/08/seek-balance-in-all-things.html) _2026-08-17 · Unknown · Daily Inspiration - Daily Quotes_ To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die. - Ecclesiastes 3:1-2 We have an obligation to live in harmony with God's creation. - Bruce Babbitt One has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you need for yourself. - Jessye Norman A time for everything: a time to relax and a time to be busy, a time to frolic… ## [Man does not live to produce bread](https://blog.jlhuie.com/2026/08/man-does-not-live-to-produce-bread.html) _2026-08-16 · Unknown · Daily Inspiration - Daily Quotes_ Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose. - Leonardo da Vinci All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. - Martin Luther King, Jr. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker. - Helen Keller Everything that is really great and… ## [False premises](https://historyunfolding.blogspot.com/2026/08/false-premises.html) _2026-08-15 · David Kaiser · History Unfolding_ It's an irony of my life that while I wanted as much or more than anything to belong to some kind of larger institution that shared my values, I have instead become more of an intellectual lone wolf every decade. So it is what while I have for the last 12 years subscribed to the same newspapers that I did through the 1970s, I continually find myself taking issue both with their opinion pages and… ## [False premises](https://historyunfolding.blogspot.com/2026/08/false-premises.html) _2026-08-15 · David Kaiser · History Unfolding_ It's an irony of my life that while I wanted as much or more than anything to belong to some kind of larger institution that shared my values, I have instead become more of an intellectual lone wolf every decade. So it is what while I have for the last 12 years subscribed to the same newspapers that I did through the 1970s, I continually find myself taking issue both with their opinion pages and… ## [Be at Peace with Nature](https://blog.jlhuie.com/2026/08/be-at-peace-with-nature.html) _2026-08-15 · Unknown · Daily Inspiration - Daily Quotes_ He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe. - Marcus Aurelius What is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? - Albert Camus Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony. - Thomas Merton The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations - each… ## [THINK about new ideas, rather than either blindly rejecting or accepting them](https://blog.jlhuie.com/2026/08/think-about-new-ideas-rather-than.html) _2026-08-14 · Unknown · Daily Inspiration - Daily Quotes_ What is my purpose in sending these Daily Quotes and Inspirations, as I have been doing since 2008? Some of these messages are intended to provide a small measure of comfort, but most of these messages are intended to challenge my readers to deeper thinking. Short quotations/aphorisms are by their nature incomplete, and almost always present only one side of an issue. Long-time readers will also… ## [The Wisdom Letter #475](https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-475) _2026-08-13 · Philosophors · Philosophy Quotes_ 5 quotes from Samuel Butler, William Carlos Williams, and others. ## [Only Slightly Deficient](https://ronnyelliott.blogspot.com/2026/08/only-slightly-deficient.html) _2026-08-13 · ronnyelliott · ronnyelliott_ By the time I got to Paris, Man Ray was gone. Kiki, too. Long gone. Of course it's a beautiful city, just not the magic that I dream of. Key West is certainly a gem. A tropical paradise, indeed. Plenty of debauchery to go around and the fun never stops. I missed the days before waiters could no longer afford rent and Mercedes outnumbered rusty bikes, though. I love New York and the place has… ## [AI QA that opens fix PRs (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/HYGriUCcAlB9) _2026-08-13 · **Sponsored**_ Run a browser QA from plain-English instructions; get GitHub issues and optional fix PRs. ## [Ask Deeper Questions](https://blog.jlhuie.com/2026/08/ask-deeper-questions.html) _2026-08-13 · Unknown · Daily Inspiration - Daily Quotes_ Let no one think that flexibility and a predisposition to compromise is a sign of weakness or a sell-out. - Paul Kagame The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers. - Brian Greene Those who can see value only in tradition,... deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances. - Stephen Bayley In science the important thing is to… ## [Life is Complex. Don't Expect Easy Answers](https://blog.jlhuie.com/2026/08/life-is-complex-dont-expect-easy-answers.html) _2026-08-12 · Unknown · Daily Inspiration - Daily Quotes_ Willingly accept the complexity and the contradictions of life. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie You didn't get stamped out of a mold. You aren't a "black person" or a "white person," a "fat person" or a "skinny person," a "bad person" or a "good person." You are a highly complex human being with emotions, beliefs, capabilities. Each day you face challenges to your health, relationships, finances, and… ## [The Wisdom Letter #474](https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-474) _2026-08-11 · Philosophors · Philosophy Quotes_ 5 quotes from Carl Jung, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and others. ## [Review Your Daily Habits. Are They Supporting You?](https://blog.jlhuie.com/2026/08/review-your-daily-habits-are-they.html) _2026-08-11 · Unknown · Daily Inspiration - Daily Quotes_ Is today the day to stop doing what doesn't inspire you, but has become a habit? Is today the day to begin new projects and a new way of life that truly inspires you? Are your habits moving you toward your life goals? Or are they keeping you stuck in place? - Jonathan Lockwood Huie Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the… ## [New Ones and Old Ones](https://ronnyelliott.blogspot.com/2026/08/new-ones-and-old-ones.html) _2026-08-08 · ronnyelliott · ronnyelliott_ Bing had to make way for Sinatra just like ol' blue eyes had to vacate the premises for Elvis. Old dogs get moved out for puppies. Yeah, it's a sad fact of life, especially if you're an old dog. The world doesn't really care what I think about AI. The fact that I find most new cars ugly isn't going to rattle the automobile industry. Wealth inequality? What's new? My opinions matter. They matter to… ## [The Wisdom Letter #473](https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-473) _2026-08-03 · Philosophors · Philosophy Quotes_ 5 quotes from Theodore Roosevelt, W. E. B. Du Bois, and others. ## [A footnote](https://historyunfolding.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-texas-curriculum.html) _2026-08-03 · David Kaiser · History Unfolding_ Several weeks ago I commented favorably on Texas's new K-12 reading curriculum. Here is a similar comment by a well-informed commentator on the subject. History Unfolding ## [A footnote](https://historyunfolding.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-texas-curriculum.html) _2026-08-03 · David Kaiser · History Unfolding_ Several weeks ago I commented favorably on Texas's new K-12 reading curriculum. Here is a similar comment by a well-informed commentator on the subject. History Unfolding ## [George Orwell — The Thinker Letter #010](https://philosophors.substack.com/p/george-orwell-the-thinker-letter) _2026-08-01 · Philosophors · Philosophy Quotes_ 5 quotes from George Orwell (1903–1950) ## [The Stars Got In My Eyes](https://ronnyelliott.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-stars-got-in-my-eyes.html) _2026-08-01 · ronnyelliott · ronnyelliott_ Sometimes I get weary of boasting about my quality of life. I'm guessing that if you're back reading this drivel, you've had a bellyful, yourself. If I don't run short of my Crest toothpaste stash, I've got enough of everything that I could possibly want or need to last the rest of my days. While I've never learned to accept the suffering in this world, I have figured out how to embrace the beauty… ## [Open-source Screen Sharing with Control (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/XfuPquFWWGDi) _2026-08-01 · **Sponsored**_ WebRTC screen sharing with simultaneous mouse & keyboard control; viewers join in browser. ## [The Wisdom Letter #472](https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-472) _2026-07-29 · Philosophors · Philosophy Quotes_ 5 quotes from Gustave Flaubert, Rainer Maria Rilke, and others. ## [Don't Let Your Coffee Get Cold](https://ronnyelliott.blogspot.com/2026/07/dont-let-your-coffee-get-cold.html) _2026-07-29 · ronnyelliott · ronnyelliott_ It's hard to take any of it seriously, isn't it? Grownups with nuclear weapons waving their holy books, threatening annihilation of civilisations. If one of these lunatics drops the big one and ends it all, so be it. There really is nothing that I can do about any of it. None of my worrying, and I've done plenty, has ever prevented anything. Now, of course, worry and dread and fear don't always… ## [Søren Kierkegaard — The Thinker Letter #009](https://philosophors.substack.com/p/sren-kierkegaard-the-thinker-letter) _2026-07-28 · Philosophors · Philosophy Quotes_ 5 quotes from Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855) ## [A Texas Experiment](https://historyunfolding.blogspot.com/2026/07/a-texas-experiment.html) _2026-07-25 · David Kaiser · History Unfolding_ Our educational establishment, it seems, has catastrophically failed the nation's public schools over the last few decades. Despite the bipartisan No Child Left Behind bill from the George W. Bush Administration and the national testing frenzy that it mandated, basic skills of reading and math appear to have been declining, not advancing, a trend accelerated by the pandemic. One big reason was the… ## [A Texas Experiment](https://historyunfolding.blogspot.com/2026/07/a-texas-experiment.html) _2026-07-25 · David Kaiser · History Unfolding_ Our educational establishment, it seems, has catastrophically failed the nation's public schools over the last few decades. Despite the bipartisan No Child Left Behind bill from the George W. Bush Administration and the national testing frenzy that it mandated, basic skills of reading and math appear to have been declining, not advancing, a trend accelerated by the pandemic. One big reason was the… ## [The Wisdom Letter #471](https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-471) _2026-07-22 · Philosophors · Philosophy Quotes_ 5 quotes from George Orwell, J. R. R. Tolkien, and others. ## [Too Old To Cut The Mustard, Young Enough To Lick The Jar](https://ronnyelliott.blogspot.com/2026/07/too-old-to-cut-mustard-young-enough-to.html) _2026-07-21 · ronnyelliott · ronnyelliott_ What I haven't seen at this point hardly matters. I haven't been everywhere, boy, and I surely haven't seen everything. Doesn't matter. It's a perfect world when you know it is and you're lucky when you know you are. I've always shown up in the Key Wests of the world just in time to be told that I should have seen it before. I always wanted to live in Paris, but the Paris of 1930. Not this time,… ## [The Wisdom Letter #470](https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-470) _2026-07-20 · Philosophors · Philosophy Quotes_ 5 quotes from Henrik Ibsen, Aldous Huxley, and others. ## [The Wisdom Letter #469](https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-469) _2026-07-19 · Philosophors · Philosophy Quotes_ 5 quotes from George Orwell, Samuel Butler, and others. ## ["Testing, testing. . . ."](https://historyunfolding.blogspot.com/2026/07/testing-testing.html) _2026-07-18 · David Kaiser · History Unfolding_ The Boston Globe ran a piece recently about a controversy in the Cambridge Public Schools. The issue is not unique to Cambridge, and its resolution, I think, illustrates the hopeless situation that the convergence of racial and economic issues has gotten us into. In 1960-1, I was among the first children in the US to do Algebra I in 8th grade. The idea of giving Algebra I to exceptional students… ## ["Testing, testing. . . ."](https://historyunfolding.blogspot.com/2026/07/testing-testing.html) _2026-07-18 · David Kaiser · History Unfolding_ The Boston Globe ran a piece recently about a controversy in the Cambridge Public Schools. The issue is not unique to Cambridge, and its resolution, I think, illustrates the hopeless situation that the convergence of racial and economic issues has gotten us into. In 1960-1, I was among the first children in the US to do Algebra I in 8th grade. The idea of giving Algebra I to exceptional students… ## ["Escape Into The Madness" or "So Long, Suckers"](https://ronnyelliott.blogspot.com/2026/07/escape-into-madness-or-so-long-suckers.html) _2026-07-17 · ronnyelliott · ronnyelliott_ It's past time to say anything and everything that I've ever wanted to say. There's really no sign that time is running out other than the calendar, the clock. The concept of Eden or heaven or some utopian fantasy is, more or less, a constant for me. The details bend, stretch and shrink, but the big picture stays pretty much true to form- everybody's kind, everybody's happy. Plenty of four-legged… ## [Our brave (?) new world](https://historyunfolding.blogspot.com/2026/07/our-brave-new-world.html) _2026-07-11 · David Kaiser · History Unfolding_ While I do grieve the world I grew up in, I also feel a compulsion to try to understand the one we are living in now. Thus I took the trouble to read and summarize here the recent biography of Elon Musk and the remarkable book Careless People that described the inner workings of Facebook. This week I took time between World Cup games to read How to Rule the World, by Theo Baker, who just graduated… ## [Loose Change, Loose Morals](https://ronnyelliott.blogspot.com/2026/07/loose-change-loose-morals.html) _2026-07-10 · ronnyelliott · ronnyelliott_ It occurs to me that every breath is different from the one before. Under a microscope each grain of sand is a completely unique, fascinating work of art, exquisite in its originality. Ants enslave aphids and we have no idea of the scale of the universe, this one or any other. Yet, I met Elvis. I've known all these dogs. I'll have dinner with Kate again. If this isn't nice, what is?… ## [Ambition Has Always Been So Overrated](https://ronnyelliott.blogspot.com/2026/07/ambition-has-always-been-so-overrated.html) _2026-07-05 · ronnyelliott · ronnyelliott_ Oh, I live a lazy man's life. Folks back home ask if I've retired. From what? I haven't played since a house concert in Tampa, next to last visit. I picked up a guitar this morning. Felt about as familiar as if I had fondled an oboe. Now, for whatever reason, I'm thinking about writing a book. Actually, I've had this story idea for several years- I've just run out of excuses to keep from writing.… ## [This one never gets old](https://historyunfolding.blogspot.com/2026/07/this-one-never-gets-old.html) _2026-07-04 · David Kaiser · History Unfolding_ The American experiment is not going well. Our civic culture is at an all-time low, we have given up our great achievements of the twentieth century, and it isn't clear where effective new leadership is going to come from. I am pessimistic in the short and medium term, but optimistic in the long run, even though I may not live to see things change. Still, on the eve of the Fourth, it's time to… ## [That's How They All Wind Up](https://ronnyelliott.blogspot.com/2026/06/thats-how-they-all-wind-up.html) _2026-06-29 · ronnyelliott · ronnyelliott_ Another one of those stories that I've told you a hundred times- my mom took me to the armory in Tampa to see The Biggest Rock'n'Roll Show of '56. Biggest event in my nine year old life! Bo Diddley. Big Joe Turner. The Drifters, who happened to bring along Clyde McPhatter, home on leave in his army uniform. LaVern Baker. Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers. The Platters. The Teen Queens. Great goodness!… ## [And now for something completely different](https://historyunfolding.blogspot.com/2026/06/and-now-for-something-completely.html) _2026-06-29 · David Kaiser · History Unfolding_ I spent the summer of 1974 researching my dissertation in London, and a lifelong love affair began. The World Cup started in Germany shortly after I arrived, and I saw at least half of the games. The great Dutch team led by my exact contemporary Johann Cruyff captivated the world on the way to the final, only to lose 2-1 to the host country Germans, despite going ahead 1-0 in literally the first… ## [Don't Disappoint Me](https://ronnyelliott.blogspot.com/2026/06/dont-disappoint-me.html) _2026-06-27 · ronnyelliott · ronnyelliott_ So often I feel like Charlie trying to kick the football that Lucy's holding. I fell, totally, for the peace and love thing. I find myself hopeful every time any peace agreement is announced. Oh, I'm not complaining, not really. Lose hope and you're done, I suppose. Give us peace on earth and end this dreadful, dreadful war. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fK7dNU\_8myA ## [Bureaucracy and Liberty](https://historyunfolding.blogspot.com/2026/06/bureaucracy-and-liberty.html) _2026-06-17 · David Kaiser · History Unfolding_ I spent my last term as a college undergraduate in the spring of 1969. For many of my classmates, that was above all the time of the occupation of University Hall, a student strike, the end, for decades, of ROTC programs on the Harvard campus, and the creation of a black studies department. I watched all t hose events as an observer, because I had just handed in my senior these on George…