Celebrate this month: Martin Luther King Jr. Day on January 16."On some positions, Cowardice Cowardice See also Boastfulness, Timidity. Acres, Bob a swaggerer lacking in courage. [Br. Lit.: The Rivals] Bobadill, Captain vainglorious braggart, vaunts achievements while rationalizing faintheartedness. [Br. Lit. asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic pol·i·tic adj. 1. Using or marked by prudence, expedience, and shrewdness; artful. 2. Using, displaying, or proceeding from policy; judicious: a politic decision. 3. ?' 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." --From his address to Southern Christian Leadership Conference Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), civil-rights organization founded in 1957 by Martin Luther King, Jr., and headed by him until his assassination in 1968. ministers, Feb. 6, 1968 |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion